Abstract:

The flipped classroom methodology requires an adequate selection of the educational materials to be used. Over the last few years, the authors of this work have been developing videos, quizzes and activity notebooks, in digital format, along with a teaching methodology for a Heat Transfer course. The methodology is based on teamwork and the concept of flipped classroom, for which the materials are made available to students through a website. The construction of this website was already presented at another Edulearn meeting. What is presented now is the results of two evaluations. One questionnaire (focused on the flipped classroom methodology) was applied to students who attended the course with one of the authors, and the other (focused on the activity notebooks) was applied to another group of students who did not follow the flipped classroom methodology, but used interactive notebooks as support throughout a course that was taught with a more traditional methodology. With the first questionnaire – multiple-choice, designed with a five-point Likert scale- the students were asked to evaluate the ease of use of the videos, the usefulness of the interactive notebooks, the development of teamwork, the website operability, and the ease to download and install the required software (Wolfram Mathematica). Additionally, the questionnaire asked students to respond, in a free format, about different aspects of the flipped classroom experience. For the second evaluation, the same questionnaire was used but leaving aside the questions related to the teaching methodology. The results, although derived from the responses of a small number of students, seem to suggest that the materials are useful in both a traditional class scheme and a flipped classroom one.

Keywords:

Flipped classroom, Heat Transfer, Interactive notebooks, Wolfram Mathematica, Experiences evaluation.