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Using action research to capture the personal journey of flipping a classroom / Joanne Smailes, Anna Heyman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smailes, Joanne, author.
- Heyman, Anna, author.
- Series:
- SAGE Research Methods. Cases.
- SAGE Research Methods. Cases
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Action research in education.
- Educational technology--Research.
- Educational technology.
- Business mathematics--Study and teaching--Research.
- Business mathematics.
- Flipped classrooms.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019.
- Summary:
- The teaching of mathematics to non-mathematicians is a long standing and complex challenge. In recent times, a number of other factors appear to have exacerbated the situation. The advent of technologies to support teaching is both a blessing and a curse. Technology enables learning to continue beyond the classroom. However, this has created an issue in how contact time, in particular lectures, can be effectively utilized. Action research methodologies can be helpful to instigate and research the impact of multiple or iterative changes to practice. This case study provides readers with personal insights to the preliminary stages of one such project. The project in question applies a flipped classroom model to business mathematics curriculum delivered by a team of staff to about 400 students per cycle. As of this writing, the action research is now in the final phases of the second cycle. Significant factors which both directly relate to the project and the action process have emerged. Commitment level from both staff (to the research process) and students (to out of class activities), data reliability, ethical dilemmas, and the emergence of a much broader challenge with respect to student's attendance and levels of engagement across their chosen program of study have impacted the potential learning gains afforded by a new teaching paradigm.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on XML content.
- ISBN:
- 1-5264-6743-7
- 9781526467430
- OCLC:
- 1084528179
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