Flexibilizing and Customizing Education using Inverted Classroom Model

ABSTRACT

Traditional academic teaching can be transformed and enhanced by the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) implemented in suitable didactical frameworks. The “inverted” or “flipped” classroom model can create diverse learning opportunities for heterogenic learning needs. Within a multicase study approach the research on two teaching projects at two German higher education institutions was conducted that provided an insight into students’ opinions toward the inverted classroom model.

KEYWORDS:

• Digital enhanced learning
• education/training
• flipped/inverted classroom
• ICT

Acknowledgment

We wish to express sincere gratitude toward the editors and the reviewers for their precise comments and their helpful guidance.

The present paper is an extension of the conference paper “Flexibilizing education”, Proceedings of the International Conference on ICT Management for Global Competitiveness and Economic Growth in Emerging Economies. Wroclaw, Poland, November 7-8, 2016. 31–32.

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Notes on contributors

Manuela Engel

Manuela Engel is a lecturer and research assistant at the Department of Special Needs Education at the University of Leipzig, Germany. She teaches classes for graduates and postgraduate professionals in the area of special educational needs. Her research interests include educational support to enhance learning competences and self-regulated learning, teaching methods and their reference to learning objectives, Flipped/Inverted learning, and the use of ICT in blended learning settings. Her current research deals with the Inverted Classroom approach in higher education.

Matthias Heinz

Matthias Heinz is a research assistant in the Department of Media Strategies at the Media Centre at the University of Technology in Dresden, Germany. He is currently working on two projects, dealing with data-mining and gamification. His research focuses on further training, digital enhanced learning and gamification within the higher education area.

Ralph Sonntag

Ralph Sonntag, PhD in economics, is a professor at Dresden University of Applied Science, Germany. He studied business administration in Wurzburg, Germany. His doctoral dissertation was “Organization of active environmental books: a contribution to process-oriented document management”. He held faculty positions at the University of Applied Sciences in Ansbach and the University of Applied Sciences in Dresden. His research focuses on social media and social commerce, Word of Mouth, customer loyalty tools, media planning, and advertising research. He was involved in the development of five international patents in the field of software-based control and interaction of video sequences.