We have been investigating the impact of a flipped classroom format at California State Polytechnic University Pomona by providing online SmartPhysics multimedia content outside classrooms and using class time to engage students in activities targeted to enhance students’ critical thinking and problem solving skills. In class, we have utilized a wide range of proven effective physics education research curricula materials such as University of Washington Tutorials, Peer Instruction, lecture demonstrations, whiteboard and group problem solving worksheets. This redesigned course model has been scaled up at several California State University (CSU) campuses with nine faculty adopting the redesigned model. We have found that this method better prepares students for the class activities, makes each component of the course more valuable to students, and allows more class time for the instructor to engage students in higher cognitively demanding tasks. We will report on our findings with specific examples.
