CPET Seminar on Flipped Classrooms

Join Mike Brown in a discussion of teaching in a flipped classroom. Mike teaches "Application of Physics to the Earth Sciences," a mathematically intensive problem solving class, and "Introduction to Planetary Science," a more conceptual-based class. Both are taught flipped, with lectures online and problem solving, projects, and discussion during the traditional lecture hours. He will discuss advantages and disadvantages of flipped classrooms for both types of classes (problem solving and conceptually-based) and how to most effectively teach these.

About the speaker: Mike Brown is the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and has been on the faculty here since 1996. He won the 2007 Feynman Prize for teaching and likes to drink coffee.