Evaluation of a Flipped Classroom Model: A Case Study from Oman

Abstract

The flipped learning approach over the years has gained importance, especially in higher educational establishments that primarily focus on more personalized learning for the students. In this context, the current study evaluates a flipped learning approach which was implemented by a higher education institution from the Middle East region as a pilot project and analyses the impact of the flipped approach on the student performance from the educators’ perspective. The study focuses on different aspects like the impact of the flipped approach on student performance in a different type of assessments, the impact of the flipped approach on academic performance, learning and development, and academic support activities. Also, this article analyses whether flipped learning reduces the plagiarism cases, impact on student attendance, student participation in extracurricular activities, impact on student’s knowledge, influence on student collaboration, effect on improvement in the ability to solve problems and impact of this approach on helping students to take the responsibility of their learning and become self-learners. This study empirically identified the learning outcomes from a flipped class and provides recommendations for the educators and higher education institutions for successful implementation of the flipped learning approach.

Probing the Flipped Learning Literature in Social Sciences and Humanities Education

“…Table 1 revealed that 14 studies (66.65%) support the effectiveness of flipped learning in enhancing social science and humanities learning skills among students; 4 studies (19.5%) contributes to cognitive skills; 2 studies (9.50%) enhanced social skills; and 1 study (4.80%) contribute to personal skills of the students. The results supported the previous studies (He et al 2019;Jong, 2019;Maheshwari & Seth, 2018;Molnar, 2017;Pandow et al, 2020;Shih & Tsia, 2017;Talan & Gulsecen, 2019) who reported the effectiveness of flipped learning. These results can be linked to the importance of technology in higher education and in social science and humanities education, as well as consider as a preferred methods in the teaching and learning process.…”

“…The result also supported the claim that implementing flipped learning in the learning process could improve the learners' information and knowledge (Jong, 2019). These results may also be attributed to the learning procedures used in flipped learning that facilitate learning practices and understanding course materials (Nanclares & Rodríguez, 2016;Pandow et al, 2020), which helps them to gain various skills. Pandow et al, (2020) reported that flipped learning impacts students' knowledge, collaboration and problemsolving skills, helping them to take the responsibility of their learning and become selflearners.…”

“…These results may also be attributed to the learning procedures used in flipped learning that facilitate learning practices and understanding course materials (Nanclares & Rodríguez, 2016;Pandow et al, 2020), which helps them to gain various skills. Pandow et al, (2020) reported that flipped learning impacts students' knowledge, collaboration and problemsolving skills, helping them to take the responsibility of their learning and become selflearners. Nanclares and Rodríguez (2019) also reported that flipped learning encourages student motivation to learn new topics and promotes positive attitudes and interactive engagement.…”

Religious and Moral Education Teachers’ Usage of the Flipped Classroom Model and its Influence on JHS Students’ Academic Performance in the Nzema-East Municipality, Ghana

“…Flipped classroom is a method where the teacher gives the content of a lesson in the form of videos to learners for them to watch at home and prepare before going to class [11]. Flipped classroom makes content of a lesson to be presented to learners online before the normal face-to-face lesson [12]. Studies revealed the identity of the one who presents the content in the video either on a disc or online.…”

A Review on Research During COVID 19 and Call for Research on Marketing During the Pandemic

“…In March 2020, we published an issue on 'Trust and Joy: Organizational Role of Thumb' with the objective to link and to find better ways to understand the boundary/ interface between organizational behaviour, organizational culture, organizational change; strategic implementations and strategic compatibility. Many interesting contributions (Bhattacharyya, 2020;Johnson, 2020;Ogbeibu et al, 2020;Pandow et al, 2020;Quttainah, 2020) added different flavours adding diversity, culture and organizational strategies to this issue. FIIB Business Review believes in hosting the most relevant and contemporary topics.…”