Flipped learning flips students out

Ordinary. That doesn’t work anymore. When everything is going the ‘different’ way, why shouldn’t education? Classrooms today are not just about mindless, lengthy lectures with students taking notes and doing assignments. Today, students can listen to lectures online at home and class time can be used for collective learning. This is not distance learning, it is the future of education across the world.

While this concept began a few years ago in the United States, Indian institutes are now embracing the ‘flipped classroom learning’ technique.  Indian School of Business (ISB) introduced this technique last year to teach students a course on entrepreneurial decision making in their PG Management program last year. Come this October, ISB will use a technology called Creatist to deliver the flipped classroom to bigger classroom. SP Jain Institute of Management and Research introduced this model for one of its courses in the Executive MBA program.

In USA, flipped classroom learning is used in renowned Universities such as Tuck Business School, Columbia Business School and NYU Stern School of Business. While virtual learning was bound to happen sooner or later, does this mark ‘this end’ too of classroom education?