FLIPPED CLASSROOM- A NEW GENERATION CLASSROOM IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

Nowadays Higher Education is adopting new ways of teaching such as ways of Video-Based Learning (VBL) withthe aim of moving away from the traditional classrooms. Video lectures have been growing in popularity and theiruse is increasing both inside and outside classrooms (Giannakos, 2013). “Many higher education institutions andeducational technology companies are using them as a main of self-study medium or as tool to enhance thelearning process” (Vieira, Lopes and Soares, 2014).Despite this, it is important to note that the mere use of videos in class is not by itself an improvement, since it isnecessary to choose an appropriate instructional approach when designing VBL environments (Seidel, Blombergand Renkl, 2013). One of the latest methods that use video as a tool for learning is Flipped Classrooms – orinverted classrooms- and, in many cases, it is showed that the result of introducing videos in a learning designeventually converges in this type of methodology.