The Future of Education

Teaching consists not only of communicating knowledge to students. It also entails searching for the correct way of conveying that knowledge to students in the most effective, relevant and technically accessible way. When organizing an academic course, it is natural to ask what teaching methods are most suitable for that particular course.
Over the past few years, the ideology of Flipped Learning has gained some popularity as a teaching method, at all levels of education. The interest is rapidly growing and extensive research is being done on how to optimize the use of the Flipped Learning methodology. At all levels of education, the ideology is always used the same: the actual input takes place outside the classroom but the dissemination happens in the classroom.
I will present a survey conducted in the autumn of 2017, during the course Spoken and written language, which was taught according to the Flipped Learning ideology at the University of Iceland.
The central questions posed was whether the students had listened to the recordings published by the teacher, whether the students took the tests that were designed to encourage listening of the recordings, and whether students found that the tests were a source of motivation to listen to the recordings.

Keywords: Higher Education, Flipped Learning, Videos and recordings;