Acknowledgements

This book came together through great teamwork. Members of the MEF University Family contributed on many levels. We would like to thank them individually.

Firstly, we would like to thank Mustafa Özcan, Derin Ural, and Joshua Shannon-Chastain for acting as academic and educational advisors.

Secondly, we would like to express our gratitude to Utkun Aydın, Eric Beyer, Joel Compton, Ertuğrul Çimen, Jonathan Day, Can Fuad Delale, Levent Güntay, Arda İnceoğlu, Nazlı Toraganlı, Emine Karacaoğlu, Burcu Serdar Köknar, John McKeown, Mustafa Özcan, Murat Özturk, Daryl Peel, Brian Ramey, Joshua Shannon-Chastain, Zelha Tunç-Pekkan, and Derya Uzal for contributing their ideas. They enriched the application part of the book by sharing their Flipped Learning experiences. In addition, a big thank you goes to our students Mehmet Ali Işık, Nikan Khamisi, and Tarık Ali Sert. They enabled us to expand the scope of the book by sharing viewpoints through the eyes of the students.

Thirdly, we are thankful to Joel Compton and Daryl Peel for proof reading; Arda İnceoğlu and Ünal Menteşe for photographs; Benjamin Hill Orero for illustrations; Brian Ramey for charts; and Ekrem Kurt for legal advice.

Special thanks go to Gerçek Çiçek, Project Editor, for her tireless work in collaborating between the publishers, writers, and contributors. Being a stickler for detail and keeping to strict deadlines, she kept the project moving forward in an organized and timely fashion.

We would also like to thank our friends outside MEF University. Their hard work and dedication made this book possible.

Thanks go to b-design, the architects of MEF University Flipped classrooms, who provided us with the ideal environment to implement Flipped Learning.

Our gratitude also goes to Geoffrey Fell and Sandra Luxon who painstakingly proofread the final manuscript.

We would also like to thank Emerald Group Publishing, especially their marketing and legal teams, for hearing our needs and supporting us at every step. In particular, we would like to thank Elias Carayannis, the Book Series Editor, and Charlotte Maiorana, the Senior Editor, for addressing all of our questions point-by-point and for their suggestions on modifications that brought the book to completion.

We thank you all for sharing this experience with us …