Cooperative Learning to the Flipped Classroom: Newer Ways to Teach

A structured group-work model in which small groups work toward a shared academic goal, each member's own success bound to the group's.

With his brother Roger, co-founded the University of Minnesota's Cooperative Learning Center in 1969 and built cooperative learning's research base.

Treats a student's own culture as a strength to build instruction on, rather than something to assimilate away.

Introduced culturally relevant pedagogy in a 1995 article that became the field's founding framework.

Deliberately varies content, process, product or environment to match what a given student is ready for and learns best by.

Coined the phrase 'differentiated instruction' and built its research base at the University of Virginia.

Learning built from a repeating cycle of concrete experience, reflection, abstract thinking and active experimentation.

Built the Experiential Learning Model and Learning Style Inventory that still frame the field.

Moves direct instruction outside class time so class itself can be spent on guided, active application.

With Aaron Sams, began recording chemistry lectures for students to watch at home starting in 2007, inverting the traditional classroom.

Students acquire knowledge and skill by working through an open-ended, real-world problem before receiving material as a lecture.

Pioneered problem-based learning at McMaster University's medical school starting in 1971.

A curriculum framework designed from the outset for a wide range of learner differences, rather than retrofitted afterward.

Co-founded CAST and, through the 1990s, articulated the Universal Design for Learning framework.