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‘Flipped classroom’ plan divides academics -Basant Kumar Mohanty

-The Telegraph

University Grants Commission has also advocated online exams and ‘blended’ online-offline courses

New Delhi: A proposal for India’s universities to introduce “flipped classrooms”, where teachers provide material to students in advance to study at home and the classroom is used for debate, analysis and problem-solving, has divided academics.

Central University of Punjab vice-chancellor R.P. Tiwari said flipped classrooms help develop critical thinking while conventional classrooms encourage passive learning, but St Stephens College faculty member Nandita Narain argued that flipped classrooms would dilute the teaching-learning process by shifting the emphasis to online education.

Apart from floating the idea of flipped classrooms, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has also advocated online exams and “blended” online-offline courses, which too have attracted opposition.

The commission has uploaded draft guidelines on new approaches to teaching and assessment, seeking feedback by November 14 from all stakeholders, including academics.

“(In a flipped classroom), the teacher provides readymade content on what will be taught in the next class. The students come prepared and raise pertinent questions during the discussion. This makes for more productive learning,” Tiwari said.

But Narain feared that some teachers might take advantage of a flipped classroom’s abolition of the conventional lecture to share readymade videos on the topic. This would limit the time for in-person interactions and preclude gainful discussion, curbing the “process of joint discovery”.

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