In moving away from the lecture model to an instructional design involving interactive pedagogy
and technology, many educators are paying attention to the Flipped Classroom ideology.
YouTube Teacher’s Studio educator, Ramsey Musallam, (2011) suggests using teacher produced
videos to shift the form of instruction from the classroom to the homework setting in the Flipped
Classroom approach. Students watch recorded lectures for homework and complete their
assignments, lab work and tests in class (Hertz, 2012). This allows the lecturers to work with the
students during class on what was formerly given as homework. In this way, the lecturers are
present to help the students and the students can also help each other (Pink, 2010). Early pioneers
of the Flipped Classroom model - Bergmann and Sams, when flipping their classrooms, used the
online material mostly to review and reinforce classroom lessons and the classroom becomes the
place to work through problems, advanced concepts, and engage in collaborative learning
(Tucker, 2012). Holmes, et al. (2001) considered that collaborative learning was “an approach to
learning in which students not only construct their own knowledge as a result of interaction with
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their environment but are also actively engaged in the process of constructing knowledge for their
learning community”.