Flipping the Chemistry Classroom with Peer Instruction

Chemistry Education: Best Practices, Opportunities and Trends

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 319-344

  Schell, Julie ^a   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ConcepTests; Disruptive innovation; Flipped classrooms; Just in Time Teaching; Peer Instruction

Indexed keywords

SCAFFOLDS;

CONCEPTESTS; DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS; FLIPPED CLASSROOMS; JUST IN TIME TEACHINGS; PEER INSTRUCTION;

TEACHING;

EID: 85018201411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527679300.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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