Abstract:

The "flipped" classroom (reverse instruction) is an educational strategy where the theoretical background is learned by students outside of the classroom. The classroom learning deals mainly with the practical application of the theoretical background. From the teacher perspective, the focus is moved from the delivering theoretical background to supervising the students’ during the practical development of relevant projects.

There must be two preconditions to practically use the strategy in E-Learning scenarios:
• The training materials must be available from the Internet in a wide range and sufficient quality.
• The flow of practical work must be organized in such a way that the students get the necessary guidance and feedback during the whole process.

Obviously teaching the mobile development matches the criteria above. In this paper, we describe the e-learning course for beginners in the developing of mobile WEB applications that utilize the flipped approach.
The course provides an overview of different technologies that are needed to develop a so-called Mobile WEB Application, i.e. Internet-based applications that are supposed to be used by means of Mobile Devices. Such knowledge and skills are in great demand nowadays.
Generally, mobile WEB applications can be built using a number of different architectural solutions.

The students are supposed to
• choose a particular architecture;
• select relevant tutorials from the WEB;
• define the main steps of the developments;
• practically implement all the components.

The teacher supervises the process on all the stages.

The course curriculum is implemented as a combination of the following components:
• a number of scripts covering main aspects of the development of the mobile applications;
• a special shared bookmarks repository
• a so-called diary – a special e-learning component that is used to support the project-oriented communication between students and teachers.

All the components above are described in the paper.

Keywords:

Mobile application, Flipped Learning.