“Most students want the recorded lecture, but if the tradeoff is not seeing the professor face to face, it might not be worth it for all of them,” said Welsh, who has experimented with the flipped classroom. “They liked it, but they still wanted to see the professor face to face in the classroom.”
Some low student evaluations in flipped classrooms, Welsh said, could be related to inevitable technical glitches in the viewing of online lectures. Still, the model has become popular across higher education.
Eighty-six percent of faculty who responded to the survey said the flipped model has helped improve student attitudes.
“There is an imperative to increase the real-time and real-world value of college degrees in order to meet the rising costs of higher education,” said Sean Brown, senior vice president for Sonic Foundry. “Despite the investment of time and effort required to implement the flipped classroom model effectively, the approach is clearly delivering key benefits to both students and faculty and will continue to see increased adoption in the coming months and years.”
It has been common in recent years for professors to view the flipped model with some skepticism, but the Sonic Foundry survey results should go a long way in allaying those fears, Welsh said.
See also:
Recorded lectures help ‘disaster-proof’ instruction at JMU
University establishes flipped learning training center for faculty
Nevada college to combine online, face-to-face learning through flexible classes
Flipped classroom model gains steam on campuses
Flipped classroom boosts exam grades, flips perception
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