Education

Accounting courses are content-rich, and lectures have been the standard way to deliver content. Add budget constraints -- which have resulted in larger class sizes at many colleges and universities -- and the lecture model becomes an economically efficient way to teach. In a flipped classroom, content is delivered outside the classroom as recorded lectures, simulations, or podcasts. Class time becomes interaction time. The underlying principle behind the flipped classroom is that work that is typically assigned as homework is better done in class where the instructor is available as a "coach," and that listening to a lecture is better done at home. Flipping the classroom does require an instructor to rethink his or her approach to teaching. The goal of flipping the classroom is to increase student interaction and involvement, and there arc many ways that can be accomplished.