Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Innovative Research in Education
Year: 2024
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Flipped Classroom: Rising Motivation of New Generation or Challengeable Way of Studying on Higher Education Level (Case Study in Georgia)
Ana Chankvetadze
ABSTRACT:
Motivating and involving new generation in the traditional classroom environment is not an easy task whereas their lives are full of modern technologies. As the result, traditional way of gaining knowledge from the lessons, being passive listener, the lecturer – active presenter and dominant in the lesson has already become part of the last century; though, doing interactive and active communicative lessons also is not enough and young generation are in constant search for more practical, easy way of studying. In this article, the researcher presents and discusses one of the active ways of learning – Flipped Classroom that might be solution for some teachers and subjects to be taught at universities which will increase students’ motivation as well as make studying process enjoyable and adoptable for new generation. At the beginning of the article, the researcher presents literature review on flipped classroom in the world (Beekes, W. (2006), Betihavas, V. Bridgman, H., Kornhaber, R., &Cross, M. (2015), Bishop, J.L., &Verleger, M.A (2013); Butt, A. (2014); (Nouri J. 2016) and others; furthermore, the researcher discusses higher educational institutions’ experience in Georgia. Later the researcher presents case study conducted in one of the higher educational institutions, discusses the challenges of conducting flipped classroom, analyses the questionnaire given to students after changing the way of teaching and summarizes it with some recommendations. In brief, the researcher considers flipped classroom to be one of the adoptable way of teaching though, it needs preparation and readiness from lecturers as well as from the students.
keywords: flipped classroom, new generation, motivation, higher education, Georgia