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Stephen Downes

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Ah, there's nothing like the fervour of the convert, who finds the devil everywhere. Here we have a discussion of the flipped classroom that drives the author into glossolalia trying to explain why it all works out in the end. "We probably would have dismissed this article (on flipped learning) as a poor piece of research... based on three educational myths... In spite of this, flipping the classroom (i.e., the inverted classroom) has become an incredibly widely used and praised approach which does have a certain amount of merit." Yeah, how about that. According to the unnamed author it's because a flipped class "often ends up with much, if not all, of the class-time being a traditional class." In the trade we call this an 'epicycle' and this particular contortion 'epicycles within epicycles'.

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