Construction and application of flipped instruction model

Abstract

The era of the 21st century is the emerging knowledge-based economy, with the rapid growth and popularity of information technology and the Internet, the use of digital tools to enhance the learning outcomes had been more common. Therefore, learners in the digital learning status also were lack of interaction and discussion among others, including teachers and other learning participants. According to this condition, flipped teaching was raised to enhance learning outside the classroom. This study aims to understand the application of the conventional flipped teaching to supplement classroom teaching, the understanding of their implementation procedures, key factors and the effectiveness of learning and teaching strategies to develop a flipped teaching model. Literatures were explored to analyze the status regarding flipped learning. Invited teachers who implemented flipped teaching had participated in-depth interviews for teaching practice. Then, questionnaires were conducted to investigate the students` abilities learned after the teaching material flipped. The data of interviews and questionnaires were analyzed and discussed. The further conclusions and recommendations were made to be the reference of future research and practitioners.