Teaching Ophthalmology Residents Clinical Optics Via a Flipped Classroom Curriculum

Teaching tip: The flipped classroom

The flipped classroom has been gaining popularity in recent years. In theory, flipping the classroom appears sound: passive learning activities such as unidirectional lectures are pushed to outside class hours in the form of videos, and precious class time is spent on active learning activities. Yet the courses for information systems (IS) undergraduates at the university that the author is tea...

Facing the challenges in ophthalmology clerkship teaching: Is flipped classroom the answer?

Recent reform of medical education highlights the growing concerns about the capability of the current educational model to equip medical school students with essential skills for future career development. In the field of ophthalmology, although many attempts have been made to address the problem of the decreasing teaching time and the increasing load of course content, a growing body of liter...

Curriculum Design in the flipped classroom: the research synthesis Methods

  Flipped classroom is a way to create positive changes in education; therefore, in the present study we tried to offer a comprehensive operating model of implementation of this method based on research synthesis. The corpus of this study consisted of all scientific articles published about the implementation of flipped classroom. From this corpus 1084 papers were identified through constant se...

Flipped Classroom: A Pedagogical Method

Introduction: One of the challenges facing medical sciences faculty members is the huge amount of materials in the field of medical education and limited class time. To overcome this challenge, different strategies such as flipped classroom could be used. The aim of this study was to review the concept of flipped classroom in medical education. Methods: In this review study, the SID, Magiran, P...

Teaching Advanced Legal Research in a Flipped Classroom