

Students can watch a screencast video at their convenience, pausing and reviewing as often as needed. Their many instructional applications include step-by-step process visuals, demonstrations, tutorials, and presentations. Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offers instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans.

The key implementation component for the flipped classroom is, of course, the screencast video itself.

Flipped teaching enables instructors to become facilitators of learning and avoid the sage-on-a-stage teaching approach, and it can be integrated across almost any curriculum. Students come to class familiar with the content, more interested in the topic, and less likely to experience cognitive overload. Class time is reserved for answering questions, solving problems, and engaging in collaborative learning activities. As homework, students view an instructor's lecture or presentation via a video screencast containing specific content. The concept is to flip, or reverse, the traditional teaching approach. The "flipped classroom," which uses screencasts as the centerpiece of the methodology, has received a lot of attention recently in education and emerged as a popular teaching model.
