The flipped classroom is an emergent form of teaching and learning in which students watch instructional videos online and complete tasks set during lesson time. This pedagogy allows teachers to spend greater amounts of time tutoring students in place of lecturing them, benefitting children with a range of abilities, interests and needs
“Flipped” or inverted classes involve having the students learn new material outside of the classroom and work on activities or discussions reinforcing that material while in class. Effectively, traditional ‘lecture’ material is covered as homework and traditional ‘homework’ assignments are covered in the class. The perceived benefit of this style of
classroom management is that, through classroom activities, students use the more complex domains of education activities (such as apply, analyze, evaluate, or discuss) to learn the new subject material. In a flipped classroom, students must read new material and/or watch a prerecorded lecture video presentation prior to coming to class. This can be problematic in introductory or non-major classes, as students typically do minimal work outside of class. Unlike a traditional lecture-style class, unprepared students in a flipped class are often confused in class and have trouble completing the class assignments. Unless the student to professor ratio is extremely low (a rare trait in most introductory courses), this confusion often leads to frustration and ultimately a general disinterest in the class material.
CHANGING PERCEPTIONS FROM TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS AND STUDENTS
The Flipped Learning model has also been successfully applied in a graduate school setting. Over the course of three years, Dr. Mumper at the University of North Carolina’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy has evaluated the impact of flipping Basic Pharmaceutics II (a first year pharmacy school course). In 2011, he taught the course using a traditional lecture style that he had used for years, then in 2012 he experimented with flipping the course.
Jessica Yarbro et al (2013), EXTENSION OF A REVIEW OF FLIPPED LEARNING, Pearson.
Jesus, I have just completed a FutureLearn MOOC on blended learning which was excellent and talked about flipped classrooms. Nos vemos este Sábado en Gibraltar, no? Hasta pronto, Ingrid
Turning the traditional learning model on its head by giving initial instruction online and bringing private study tasks back into the classroom has been touted as the best way to employ modern technology in higher education. However, a report from the European University Association suggests that just than one in seven European universities is a strong advocate of the flipped classroom model, while only half of institutions are developing more forms of online learning...