Why don't you tell me what I need to know? Self-flipped classroom and students' personal epistemology.

Daniels, Mats; Cajander, Asa; McDermott, Roger; Vasilcheko, Anna; Golay, Diane

Abstract

This is a full research paper addressing the crucial element of understanding students when creating learning environments. It is for instance important to be aware of how students appreciate our way of teaching and to consider consequences of students not understanding or plainly disliking a setup. This paper addresses the negative experiences of students in a peer-learning environment named the self-flipped classroom. Through the lens of a theory of personal epistemology we investigate course evaluation reports and observations from anonymous students. Results indicate that the personal epistemology framework indeed gives some answers to students disliking the self-flipped aspect of the course, and that some students would rather be told what to learn in detail as in the quote: 'why don't you tell me what I need to know?'. Finally the paper presents some ideas on ways forward.

Citation

DANIELS, M., CAJANDER, A., MCDERMOTT, R., VASILCHEKO, A. and GOLAY, D. 2021. Why don't you tell me what I need to know? Self-flipped classroom and students' personal epistemology. In Proceedings of 2021 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2021), 13-16 October 2021, Lincoln, USA [virtual conference]. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 9637355. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637355

• Conference Name: 2021 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2021)
• Conference Location: Lincoln, USA [virtual conference]
• Start Date: Oct 13, 2021
• End Date: Oct 16, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Jul 19, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Dec 20, 2021
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2021
• Deposit Date: Feb 10, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 10, 2022
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Series ISSN: 2377-634X
• ISBN: 9781665438520
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/fie49875.2021.9637355
• Keywords: Personal epistemology; (Self-)flipped classroom; Competency; Motivation
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1563784