Group 2: Flipped Classroom Setting
Students following the IIM teaching methodology had same
class scheme as the one used in the TCS (3 sessions of
50 min weekly to work theoretical contents and 50 min
weekly of laboratory works). For this methodology, all
students had access to a virtual campus, where classroom
presentations and laboratory instructions were available a
week before class, together with video lessons. For this
asynchronous lecture delivery, Doceri and Screenflow were
used to elaborate the video lessons. The capabilities of
Doceri software have been reported before, proving to be a very useful alternative in delivery of science courses by
resident instruction, distance learning to multiple campuses,
synchronous online instruction and asynchronous online
instruction (Silverberg et al. 2014). Students were encouraged
to watch the lecture videos before class, according to a
schedule. To make the video lectures more appealing to
students, the online learning environment ‘‘eduCanon’’ was
used to create interactive lessons (Fig. 2). Precisely, quiz
questionnaires and comments were inserted into the lectures
to increase the student engagement and to provide emphasis
or additional information in the more difficult contents.
Beside the video lessons, students were also provided with
multiple-choice online quizzes to revise lecture contents
and to provide a feedback to the instructor before class in
order to deliver short ‘‘just-in-time’’ lectures as needed.
These activities were not compulsory, but worth an additional
10 % in their grade. Therefore, with this teaching
scheme, students spent in-class time working in assigned
groups on different problem set (numerical and non-numerical)
designed by the professor or using published
material, small group discussion and case studies, where the
instructor gave students a real-world problematic situations
related to the lesson contents reviewed in the video lessons.
The instructor role in these sessions was to observe, address concerns and deliver explanations when needed. By the end
of each lessons, students had to submit a report with all
tasks accomplished for its assessment. These activities were
compulsory and worth 30 % of their grade.