By Shaggy
Last week, the Faculty of Health Sciences announced in a major press conference the
beginnings of what is being termed the “flipped flipped classroom”.
The culmination of a years-long study into helping BHSc students learn what little they are expected to learn in their coursework, the faculty claims that the flipped flipped classroom will revolutionize BHSc education in a way not seen since the introduction of HABITS into the curriculum.
In the dense, 420-paged report titled “Flipping Off The Flipped Classroom”, the faculty
cited numerous difficulties with the flipped classroom, among them the significant bandwidth strain on the HSL internet from everyone watching podcasts at 3x speed during the final examination periods.
Seeking to supplant the flipped classroom, the flipped flipped classroom would introduce such profound concepts as lectures held in person, rather than the arcane current standard of online modules. Students would be required to take notes and learn during class, and do homework at home – ideas contrary to the prevailing paradigm. The policy is expected to have far-reaching consequences for students, such as actually knowing what their professors’ faces look like.
Students involved in the pilot of the program lamented that they could not make the
professor speak at 1.5x, although hipsters enjoyed the #retro aesthetic of sitting in lecture halls. While overall student reactions were mixed, the official faculty statement read, “trust us. This report is the most expensive thing we’ve done since the BHSc Office renovations. We know what we’re doing.”
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