Successfully Inverting the Classroom - Recommendations to Teach (fully online): Practical marginal conditions to succeed lecturing science implementing the inverted classroom method

ABSTRACT

Inverting the classroom is a method to let students study the science of engineering materials on their own and then take time to discuss their questions and do extended hands-on lectures or exercises in class - or in the case of the covid-19 pandemic during plenary online sessions. First year mechanical engineering students use different materials to study and comprehend the principle underlying science in theory and then the plenary lectures offer the opportunity to apply their knowledge and transfer different aspects of material science to get the bigger picture. To meet the course learning outcome and overcome the diversity of a first year class many practical leads have to be fulfilled. Also, a sufficient number and variety of teaching materials, lecture videos, lightboard videos and micro-module lectures are provided aiming at different learning skills of the students. Students may individually choose, combine and study from alone or in study groups from a distance. Exercises, worked solutions, self-assessed tests and peer-instruction during present time help students to check on their learning progress. However, the self-study periods and (online) plenary sessions need to be guided carefully. If the inverted classroom teaching method follows a holistic approach it has been proven to be successful and increase the fun of learning (online) throughout the first year. © 2022 Association for Computing Machinery. All rights reserved.