Engaging learners with flipped classroom: Progress and initial findings

Flipped classroom is a new pedagogical method which consists of video lectures that learners watch at their own time prior to attending classes whilst participating in group activities during class time which s reverse from traditional teaching approach that learners are expected to listen to lectures during classes but having activities outside of classes. The presentation will discuss the progress of team members from different disciplines of two faculties who have implemented flipped classroom for semester 1, 2015-16. The speaker will share her experience of implementing flipped classroom for two classes who learned a web-based photo editing software on their own and applied their recently acquired editing knowledge to edit an image of their own choice related to the theme of their group project in class. Finally, the findings from 8 students who participated in focus-group meetings will also be discussed.