The flipped classroom has gained press and credibility within education circles. The lecture or didactic component of the lesson becomes available to the learner as a video to be viewed during his or her own time, often as homework. The advantage of the flipped classroom is that the content, often the theoretical/lecture-based component of the lesson, becomes more easily accessed and controlled by the learners.
A major roadblock or barrier to the implementation of this model is that many educators do not know what to do in the classroom with the time once spent doing lectures. For educators, who are used to and use the didactic model, a framework is needed to assist them with the implementation of the Flipped Classroom.
The Flipped Classroom Model: The Full Picture is a model where the video lectures and vodcasts fall within a larger framework of learning activities. It provides a sequence of learning activities based on the learning theories and instructional models of experiential learning.
The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture provides a discussion of how videos lectures fall within a larger framework of learning activities; strategies for using technology to support a full cycle of learning and address a full spectrum of learning activities and learning styles; and ideas for using technology to support a broad range of student learning including reflection and demonstration of knowledge.
Chapters are: What is the Flipped Classroom; Problems and Issues with the Flipped Classroom; The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture; How The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture Supports Universal Design for Learning; The Flipped Classroom in Higher Education; Mobile Learning and the Flipped Classroom; An Example Lesson; and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Tinkering and Maker Education.