Designing A Collaborative Problem-Solving Activity to Prepare Students for Flipped Classroom

Abstract

Despite flipped classroom’s potential positive influence on students’ learning experiences, lack of student pre-class preparation has been a widely reported issue. To address this issue, we have designed a collaborative problem-solving activity to promote students’ pre-class online engagement and to get them better prepared for flipped classroom learning. With this approach, students are motivated to engage actively with online learning materials, and instructor and/or tutors are enabled to provide timely support to students before class. Experiments have been conducted to verify the effectiveness of the activities, with results showing that student engagement in the experimental group was strikingly higher than in the control groups