We've heard a lot about the “flipped classroom” lately. The premise makes perfect sense. The traditional classroom devotes class time to pushing content to the student, while the student engages that content outside class as “homework.” The problem is that if the student encounters problems with the homework, he or she has no one around to solve the impasse. The student needs to wait until class to get questions answered, often forgetting about them by that time, or doing all the subsequent problems wrong.
