GAINESVILLE, FL Doing the Flipped Classroom One Better University of Florida finds flipped classroom methods and collaborative technology a powerful combination Is the traditional lecture an endangered species? Maybe not, but a recent study at the University of Florida College of Engineering suggests there are better ways to teach today’s technically savvy college students. Concerned with poor attendance and uninspired performance among many of their engineering students, four professors from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UF tried an experiment. They taught one Circuits I class using traditional methods, where students listened to a lecture in a large auditorium, and then went home and did their homework. The following semester they taught the same cl

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