Lecturers at Elon University have adopted 'Flipped Classrooms' to clarify students' doubts and queries during class hours rather than wasting time on teaching lessons and dictating home work.
Lecturers using this innovation record their lessons and assign home work to students. In turn, students are expected to go through the recordings, complete their assignments and ask questions to the lecturers, if necessary.
Flipped classrooms offer the latest digital technology that allows students to chat online while watching the lessons
The goal is to actively engage the students during class hours instead of forcing them to attend a lecture.
With this teaching method the lecturers have ample time to concentrate on weaker students and organise possible discussions, exercises on lesson topics as the students would have a prior understanding of the topic, which would also increase their knowledge on subject matters.
Janna Anderson, communications professor and director of imagining the Internet said that 'flipped classroom' facilitates more personal time with students and encourages sharing and gaining knowledge among students that results in active learning.
While students are excited to skip classrooms, at the same time, they dread having to learn their lessons in company of their family.
"It'd be cool to never have lectures in class," said freshman Lauren Wick. "But I can't imagine myself watching the lesson at home."
Tegrity, a firm that specializes in flipped instruction, has more than 1 million student users, which reveals its popularity.
However, implementing this teaching method in developing countries may or may not be successful as there is no guarantee of computer accessibility in households.
