redd38 said:
lost my dog said:
redd38 said:
They suck for lectures though.
Lol, depends who is teaching...
Doesn't matter who is teaching, you've still got a bunch of people either with their backs to the professor or spun around to face the professor but no table to take notes on.
And that's not the only aspect of new Zachry that seems to have been implemented simply because they can and not because they should.
They are trying to use room design to force curriculum redesign. If you're in a lecture hall, all you can really do as a student is receive a lecture.
So with the 'flipped' classroom the student is supposed to watch online videos/read before attending lecture, then the lecture time is just a brief overview and a ton of group work at the tables to get comfortable with solving the problems.
What actually happens is somewhere in between. Those students who can stay ahead on the curriculum do incredibly well in the flipped classroom concept. Those who are drowning in homework/projects/studying (95% of the engineering student body) get further behind because the lecture isn't built to teach all of the material the first time.
About halfway through the semester the professor will have to slow down and basically cover everything twice.
The students usually groan more about a flipped classroom, usually test results show they learn more.