despite the buzz around the flipped classroom as an exciting new topic in educational research, there is a lack of consensus on exactly the flipped classroom is, and there is also a limited amount of scholarly research on its effectiveness. First, we will attempt to define the flipped classroom. Perhaps the simplest definition of the flipped , classroom is given by lage et al. "Inverting the classroom means that events that have traditionally taken place inside the classroom now take place outside the classroom and vice versa" . This flipping is demonstrated in table 1. While this explanation captures the rationale for using the terminology inverted or flipped, it does not adequately represent the practice of what researchers are calling the flipped classroom . This definition would imply that the flipped classroom merely rep-resents a re-ordering of classroom and at-home activities. In practice, however, this is not the case