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The flipped classroom

Flipped learning is one of the modern technical solutions to address traditional weaknesses and develop students' thinking skills. In flipped learning, technology is employed to take advantage of learning in the educational process, so that the teacher can spend more time interacting, interacting, and discussing with students instead of giving lectures, as students watch a short video of the lectures at home, so that more time is used to discuss the content in the classroom under The teacher supervision.

Flipped learning is one of the types of blended learning that uses technology to transfer lectures outside the classroom, and thus is considered part of a broad movement in which blended learning and inquiry learning intersect and other different teaching strategies and methods that seek flexibility, activate the role of the student, and make learning fun and interesting. The following figure shows the overlap between flipped learning and different teaching strategies.

Flipped learning is also an educational model in which the lecture and homework in all its forms are reflected, and it is considered a form of blended education that includes the use of technology to benefit from self-learning and the use of time in the classroom to perform activities and duties.

This style of learning depends on showing a short video that students watch in their homes or anywhere else before attending the lesson, while the lecture time is devoted to discussions, projects and exercises, and the video clip is an essential element in this style, whether it was recorded by the teacher and uploaded to the Internet or it was Choosing it from among the pre-existing videos on the Internet.

Others defined it as: an educational strategy based on a new educational method based on the use of modern technological media and the global information network in a way that allows the teacher to prepare lessons through video clips, audio files and other media, for students to see outside the classroom (for example, at home), through their computers or smartphones before attending the lesson, while the lecture or class time is devoted to discussions, solving exercises, and providing feedback.

  • Maha Al Qahtani 2030