Chliaras, P., (2015) The flipped classroom,
IATEFL VOICES, issue 244, p.9, Kent, UK.
A growing number of higher education institutions have
begun implementing the flipped classroom model in their
courses in order to provide students with more in-class activities
and less in-class lecturing. Walvoord and Anderson (1998)
regard the flipped classroom as a pedagogical model in which
students first gain exposure to new material outside the classroom
through reading and/or videos and then focus on the
harder work of using that knowledge through discussion,
teamwork, and problem solving in the classroom. Walvoord
and Anderson (op. cit.) also point out that an assignmentbased
model in which students produce work (individually or
as team members) prior to class, may ensure that students
are adequately prepared for productive class time. Students
then receive effective feedback through the processing of activities
during class. Thus, in the technology-enhanced flipped
classroom, students’ and teachers’ roles change, the teaching
and learning process is accelerated and students learn to work
independently.