Abstract:

Flipped classroom is a teaching strategy which has been greatly studied and utilized in various types and areas of teaching. Basically, it means that classes start being taught reverse to traditional classes. The teacher or instructor sends contents to students before lectures, adding the fact that students must study the subject matter before attending class. The advantages are clear: the time that class with teacher and classmates takes starts being used not in order to explain the subject, but for more complex questions which may be put only after clear knowledge of the subject.

In order for this teaching strategy to work it is necessary that students do their homework and that the teacher sends the correct and interesting study materials to students.

In a phase of state of emergency-teaching or mixed teaching (presential and distance) caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic, flipped classroom started being much more used, namely in higher education and in areas as IT.

In this article we analyze 78 students of two IT courses, finding what type of students consulted the study materials sent by the teacher before lectures: we compare the characteristics of students, namely at the level of previous motivation, and MOODLE’s activity notes in the beginning of each lecture and written evaluation. Thus, we will get to know for which type of students the effective use of the flipped classroom strategy may cause efficient learning and who are the students who will never do their previous homework.

Keywords:

Flipped classroom, COVID-19, e-learning.