Recent advances in technology and in ideology have unlocked entirely new directions for education
research. Mounting pressure from increasing tuition costs and free, online course offerings
is opening discussion and catalyzing change in the physical classroom. The flipped classroom is
at the center of this discussion. The flipped classroom is a new pedagogical method, which employs
asynchronous video lectures and practice problems as homework, and active, group-based
problem solving activities in the classroom. It represents a unique combination of learning theories
once thought to be incompatible—active, problem-based learning activities founded upon a
constructivist ideology and instructional lectures derived from direct instruction methods founded
upon behaviorist principles.