• Frontpage
  • Bloggers
  • Archive
  • About
Inside

Students love the new trend in education…

02.12.2014 Education, Research

I have just finished an ICT course with almost 500 students. To make this work smoothly I’ve decided to jump on a (relatively) new trend in education called Flipped classroom. The idea is simple, you let the students absorb the knowledge at home (or wherever they are), and when they come to class you do the real work to understand and apply the newly acquired knowledge. In my case, I recorded all ‘lectures’ and upload it on Youtube, and in class we only focused on exercises. To make this work I nicely ask the student to watch the videos and read the study materials before they attend the classroom exercises.

After every course I let the students take part of a short survey to check what was good and what need to be improved in the course. This year (2014) 185 students answered the survey.

So, how did they like the idea of flipped classroom? As you can see in the first chart above almost everyone are, more or less, positive to flipped classroom. When you read the comments you could see that the students liked the idea that they could watch the videos when, and as many times as they wanted. They could also rewind and pause the lectures. According to many students, the video was a great help to understand difficult tasks.

However, when you asked the students if they watched the lectures before they attended the classroom exercises, the answer was different (see chart 2 above). Very few student took time watching the videos before they came to the class. This doesn’t mean that they never watched the videos and maybe they focused on the other study materials. But the deep flawless idea of flipped classroom didn’t come into its own.

The reasons can be many. Maybe the students are not used to this kind of self-directed studies, or they didn’t see the benefits of watching the videos (maybe the reader have more reasons they could write down in my blog :). Whatever it is, I’m sure we’ll see more of flipped classroom and blended learning in the future.

 

Filip Levälahti

I'm the e-learning coordinator at Arcada. I think my job is fun, creative and challenging. That's what my blog is about, plus a lot of other crazy things.

Contact details

  • levalahf@arcada.fi
  • LinkedIn

More by the same author

  • 28.04.2017 Online pedagogical hierarchy of needs
  • 05.12.2016 Forma framtidens lärande
  • 30.05.2016 Can you digitalize?
  • 22.03.2016 Digital kompetent – Hur?
  • 03.12.2015 Rethinking assignments and feedback
Read more

AuthorFilip Levälahti

Tagsblended learning, flipped classrom, pedagogy, students, survey

Meet our bloggers

International Student Ambassadors

  • 19.01.2021 My Master’s Journey
  • 16.12.2020 A day in the life of an International Business student

Arcada Research News

  • 15.12.2020 The Ministry of Education and Culture funds Arcada’s new research programme
  • 25.11.2020 Arcada’s researchers are contributing to the development of an ethical assessment of Artificial Intelligence

The NURED Project

  • 28.02.2020 Ending the NURED Project: final products, and final thoughts.
  • 30.09.2019 The NURED Final Seminar – WELCOME!
  • 13.06.2019 The NURED Roadtrip – Discussions about developing nursing curriculas across the Baltic Region

Vårdprogrammet

  • 16.04.2019 Nurses’ Confidence in Medication Administration

Arcada Entrepreneurship

  • 23.04.2019 Strategy Workshop – Paul D. Savage
  • 16.04.2019 Tieto visit- An emphatic building for activity based working style
  • 12.04.2019 Från post it-lappar till konkret förändring – ett recept till vinnande koncept

Kultur och Media / Culture and Media

  • 22.12.2020 Creativity: A Multidisciplinary Systematic Literature Review by Özgür Ak
  • 15.12.2020 Instagram Brand Awareness among fitness minded female millennials. Do values behind the company increase follower base more efficiently than mere advertising? by Polina Kantola
  • 04.11.2020 Mobile journalism in Finnish TV-news broadcasting – The impact on news storytelling

Availability statement

© 2021 Yrkeshögskolan Arcada