Content written by Dan Berrett and Beckie Supiano and published by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

MBA News Digest Comment: Perhaps some MBA faculty should be encouraged to follow this path.

Extracted Content: Paul Nissenson was troubled by results from the upper-division fluid-dynamics course at his college: Over a seven-year period, about a third of the students got D’s, failed, or withdrew. And other mechanical-engineering courses, like statics and dynamics, also had high rates of DFW’s.

As someone who had tried flipping courses and reading up on active-learning techniques, Nissenson was receptive to the idea that changing his section of the lecture-heavy course could improve it. He also wanted to do so in a thoughtful and rigorous way.

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