Use of Flipped Classroom Activity as an Active Learning Strategy: An Experimental Analysis

Abstract

Due to rapid development in teaching-learning and its methodologies, technology has opened entirely new avenues for educational research. It is one of the challenging fields as well. Research in teaching-learning approach is one of the most popular tools for teachers, to help students understand the things in a better and easier way. There are variety of methods for the teachinglearning process like problem-based learning, project-based learning, case-based teaching, discovery learning, in-person and just-in-time. Out of those methods, flipped classroom is one of the most popularly used pedagogical approaches which allow the instructors to share video lectures and some practice problems/quiz based on video lectures as homework and active, group-based problem solving activities in the classroom for students. The flipped classroom method includes pre-recorded video lectures, online study material, quizzes/problems to solve by students. In this paper, we presented an experimental study of our flipped classroom activity in combination with Think-PairShare (T-P-S) - an active learning method while teaching the concepts of Process Management under the course Operating Systems. The success of the approach was assessed on the basis of perceptions held by the teaching faculty and student’s experience. Overall, the students shared a high level of satisfaction with this flipped classroom approach