Inverted Classroom

Reversal of Frontal Teaching: Acquiring and applying knowledge

Traditional teaching and flipped classroom

The didactic concept of the inverted classroom (also called flipped classroom) stands for a reversal of traditional frontal teaching. Here, the teaching and acquisition of learning content takes place asynchronously and usually digitally in self-study (e.g. through videos, e-books or through the exchange of course participants in online communities) prior to an in-person class. The in-person phases and synchronous course meetings are then used to apply and consolidate what has been learned.

The flipped teaching approach is often combined with the blended learning concept.

Advantages

  • All participants can learn at their own accord and ownpace

  • Promotes self-organisation skills

  • More time for solving problems and more practical work in the seminar or lecture

  • Increased interaction with fellow students during synchronous classes

  • Social media components in the Moodle course ensure more casual interactions

  • Games, quizzes & tasks in the Moodle course create playful learning (gamification)

  • Fast communication & quick personal feedback possible via Moodle

  • Reusability of the teaching videos and the Moodle course (sustainable)

Disadvantages & challenges

  • Self-responsibility for the learning process not every student will complete the assignments

  • Less interaction possibilities during knowledge acquisition via Moodle course and teaching videos

  • Important: face-to-face exchange with fellow students (social component)

  • Role of the physical lecture hall as a learning space 

  • Training required for using the digital learning platform Moodle

  • Time required to create the accompanying Moodle course and learning materials (e.g. teaching videos)

First steps towards the Flipped Classroom

Build a teaching concept

1. Build a teaching concept

What content can I digitise and make available to my students in the self-learning phase? Go through the guiding questions on the teaching concept here and tailor your inverted classroom concept to your needs.
Create teaching videos

2. Create teaching videos

Here you will find an overview of how you can easily create teaching videos and integrate them into your Moodle course. Teaching videos are the most popular form of digitised content in flipped classroom concepts.
Create a Moodle course

3. Create a Moodle course

Create a Moodle course for your "flipped" class and learn here which tasks you can implement with Moodle to support the self-directed acquisition of knowledge in the best possible manner.