Education Policy, Business and Technology

Flipped classroom project at North Carolina-Greensboro produces promising results

Inside Higher Ed: Quality, cost, access -- pick two.

That’s the traditional view of higher education’s “iron triangle” -- that trying to adjust for one of the three main factors of a college education will influence the other two. For example, cutting costs might increase access to students who were previously unable to afford an education, but quality might suffer as a result.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is the latest institution to challenge that axiom. Over the last two academic years, the university has been involved in a project where faculty members redesigned four courses according to design principles they named CRAFT (the acronym is short for Create and curate content, Replace lectures with Active, and Flipped, Team-based learning). The project targeted general education requirements and courses with high rates of students withdrawing or earning a D, F or an incomplete.

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