Flipped Classroom Analysis

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Current students or digital natives were born into a world of ubiquitous technology. As some literature suggests, these students need to be educated differently than past generations. Their preference for interactive and experimental learning approaches has made the flipped classroom an increasingly popular approach to reach students (Phillips & Trainor, 2014).
In the flipped classroom, students are expected to spend their homework time outside of class, watching audio or video lectures that take the place of in-class lectures. Class time is reserved for active-learning assignments, discussions, hands-on application, problem solving, and other collaborative activities (Phillips & Trainor, 2014). The term “flipping” comes from the idea that …show more content…

For students to fully benefit from flipped classroom model, students must complete pre- or post-class activities on their own meaning that students must be appropriately motivated to complete assignments (Abeysekera & Phillip, 2016). The flipped classroom is a form of active learning in which students are engaged in meaningful learning activities associated with developing a personal understanding of the material, rather than simply recalling knowledge given to them. Four main components of active learning include a search for meaning, greater student responsibility for learning, a concern of skills in addition to knowledge, and a deep personal understanding of the knowledge rather than retention (Phillips & Trainor, 2014). Benefits of the flipped classroom can include more time for engaging instruction and discussion during class, students can work at their own pace, students are free to view lectures regardless of time or place, lectures can also be viewed multiple times to gain understanding of a topic, and can be more time efficient for both students and teachers (Phillips & Trainor, …show more content…

As all students are different, the flipped classroom may not be beneficial to all students. Those who are unchallenged may find that the flipped classroom provides them more opportunities to grow and learn, other who move slowly through coursework may move even more slowly if allowed to work at their own pace, and those with no motivation may simply fail to work at all (Ash, 2012).There is little data on the effectiveness of the flipped classroom model; however, teachers are collecting their own data on student achievement and are finding their results to be very rewarding. Many educators suggest that there is a significant increase in student learning and achievement in comparison to the same courses taught in a traditional classroom model (Fulton,

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