Spend class time engaging students in application activities with feedback.
a flipped classroom is where students engage in applying the course content and thinking in ways common to that field. Ideally, the learning activity builds in its level of challenge, so that misunderstandings and misconceptions are exposed.

How might class time be repurposed in ways that will provide students with an appropriate level of challenge while leveraging your expertise as a coach or guide?

Instructional Strategies

If you have a learning activity that fits this criteria, then begin with that activity. If you have traditionally spent class time lecturing, then finding a structure that fits your discipline is important.

There are a wide variety of evidence-based instructional approaches that create engaging class environments, here are a few approaches being used to create collaboration and problem solving in small and large classes at UT:

Peer Instruction: Students prepare for class and give insrtuctors feedback about what they found confusing or difficult. During class, students experience cycles of mini-lectures interspersed with peer discussion of conceptual questions that work to elicit, confront, and resolve misconceptions students may hold.
Team-based Learning (TBL): Students prepare before class and experience readiness-assurance quiz over the content at the start of class (first as individuals and then as a team). Teams get immediate feedback on their performance while instructors address gaps in understanding via mini-lectures. Next, teams engage in structured application activities that conclude with teams simultaneously making a specific choice.

Case-based Learning: Students work together in small groups with guidance from the instructor to analyze the problem and evaluate a given course of action or decide on one of their own.
Process-oriented Guided Inquiry Learning: POGIL activities are designed around the learning cycle where students explore data or information guided by questions, generate conclusions based on the data, and apply these concepts in new situations. The activites are structured to develop process skills, critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration. For more information visit POGIL.

Assessment Strategies

Assessment techniques can help inform and enhance learningwhen questions that measure student understanding are embedded into in-class learning activities:

Provides students with feedback about what they know and do not know.
Provides instructors with real-time data that informs instruction.
Encourages students to engage during class by holding them accountable for their preparation.

Technology-enhanced Learning

A Classroom Response System (CRS) allows instructors to ask questions to the class, then immediately gather and display student responses. There are several clicker systems on the market for faculty to choose. iClicker is centrally supported and very popular among UT faculty