A Busy Professor's Guide to Sanely Flipping Your Classroom

The Flipped Classroom has become a popular teaching method. Students watch video lectures before class, saving class time for active learning (problem solving, demonstrations, applications, etc.). This paper is a useful guide for busy professors who would like to try out the flipped classroom approach. Recommendations for four teaching components are given: (1) Planning the Flipped Classroom, (2) Video Lectures, (3) Active Learning, and (4) Student-Centered Formative Assessment. Recommendations are also given for how to get started with the flipped teaching method. Case studies from electromagnetics are given. Feedback from students on what resources are most useful, their comfort level asking questions, and their overall opinion on the flipped class over the semester are included.