1) Article: Flipped Learning

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation/2013/01/27/flipped-learning-class/1868733/

Flipped Learning: (see above article)

The basic idea of flipped learning is instead of having the teacher lecture for an hour in front of class, have the teacher instead create short 10-minute lecture videos that can be posted online. The students then watch the short lectures online after school, on their commute, before class (or whatever), and spend class time in groups working on problems/projects in groups. The teacher can walk among the groups, helping out students, giving 1-1 attention as needed.

The students working in groups, instead of just memorizing algorithms and facts and useless knowledge, will learn a much more useful skill: critical thinking and problem solving.

This method solves the problem of lengthy lectures. If a professor divides his lecture into short 10 minute videos, students will have an easier time learning the material in small segments, rather than learning everything at once in an hour.

The good thing about the video format, is that students who are excelling can skip ahead and learn at their own accelerated pace. Students who are struggling can just go back in the video and keep watching whatever part they are having trouble with and learn it. Both of those things are impossible with a professor-long-lecture format.

-- Richard