How Can Flipped Learning Continue in a Fully Online Environment? Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

Teachers and students had an unusual experience in 2020. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, regular teaching and learning in schools were suspended in many countries. The prolonged school closure presented unprecedented challenges because all teaching and learning activities had to be converted to a fully online format. This article reports on an attempt to sustain flipped learning using real-time online instruction. A flipped lesson on the cross-disciplinary applications of linear systems (i.e., balancing chemical equations) is presented in detail. Student feedback and the lessons learned from the experience are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• Flipped learning
• flipped classroom
• online instruction
• classes suspension
• linear algebra

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Chung Kwan Lo

Chung Kwan Lo is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology at the Education University of Hong Kong. He received his Ed.D. from the University of Hong Kong. His main research interests are mathematics education, technology-enhanced learning, student engagement, and teacher professional development.