Time to Flip?

L. RAFAEL REIF, the new President of MIT,  has an excellent editorial on how colleges can use online teaching for residential students. Here are some highlight quotations.

• "Higher education is at a crossroads not seen since the introduction of the printing press." 
• "The network of students that came together around it was so powerful that the course's instructor stopped his teaching assistants from answering questions in the online forum. The students had said they learned the material better when they helped each other out."
• "How can online education improve the residential experience? At MIT, we got a hint when we allowed a test set of MIT students to take the MITx version of Circuits and Electronics, supplemented by weekly contact with faculty, for credit. They liked the experience and demonstrated deep comprehension of the material.
  
  Some are calling this model the "flipped classroom."