Our research question essentially asked if we could trade contact hours for an active learning pedagogy and environment and achieve the same student experience and learning outcomes. We reduced the total amount of time students spent in the classroom by two-thirds while lectures were shifted online. The reduced classroom time was spent in an active learning classroom where students worked with each other to solve problem sets, answer clicker questions, listen to spot explanations of key concepts, and watch short demonstrations. The students achieved learning outcomes that were in one case superior to, and in the other case statistically equal to, the outcomes from the traditional classroom when measured by a standardized exam, and their perceptions of their learning environment were improved.