Contributions of flipped classroom method to student learning

Abstract

Educational institutions are striving for new methods for effective teaching. Flipped classroom (FC) method is one of the new trends spreading in higher education and attracting more instructors. This study aims at exploring the factors influencing the adoption of such a method and its benefits and challenges based on students' perceptions. The literature review suggested a few factors like benefits, enjoyment, innovation development, and social influence as major predictors of flipped classroom adoption. Responses from a sample of 200 students from Qatar University supported all predictors except the role of FC benefits in influencing the adoption. The model explained 62.9% of the adoption variance based on the coefficient of determination value. The authors conducted analysis on items and constructs levels to give more insights on the issues covered in this paper.