Howard Steven W, Scharff Darcell P, Loux Travis M
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Front Public Health. 2017 Apr 12;5:73. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00073. eCollection 2017.
Alternative course formats are gaining increasing attention in higher education. The literature provides a number of examples and studies of flipped classrooms in the medical sciences and liberal arts and sciences. However, fewer than five papers on flipped classes in graduate public health courses have been published, and none in health management. Because graduate public health education is competency based, it seems that a flipped approach with its applied nature would be an appropriate form of teaching public health courses. This paper describes three successfully flipped courses taught in a school of public health. We provide a rationale for flipping, description of each course, and lessons learned. Once some of the challenges are overcome, we believe flipping courses can provide an alternative approach that enhances active learning in applied, public health, and health management courses.
在高等教育中，另类课程形式正日益受到关注。文献中提供了许多医学、文科和理科领域翻转课堂的实例及研究。然而，关于研究生公共卫生课程中翻转课堂的论文发表数量不足五篇，而在健康管理领域则尚无此类论文。由于研究生公共卫生教育是以能力为基础的，因此具有应用性质的翻转教学法似乎是教授公共卫生课程的一种合适形式。本文介绍了一所公共卫生学院成功开展的三门翻转课程。我们阐述了翻转课程的理由、每门课程的描述以及经验教训。一旦克服了一些挑战，我们相信翻转课程能够提供一种替代方法，增强应用、公共卫生和健康管理课程中的主动学习。
