The Future of Education

Flip Learning is a teaching method that is getting a great deal of attention these days. It entails combining the use of lecture recordings, workshops, and short exams. The ideology is based on the idea that the actual input of knowledge that is being taught takes place outside the classroom, but the dissemination happens in the classroom.
For the last six autumn semesters, I have taught the course Spoken and written language at the University of Iceland, according to the Flip Learning ideology. After each semester, I have surveyed various aspects of the Flip Learning ideology in order to examine and improve the use of it as a method for my teaching.
In this presentation I will look back at a couple of those surveys conducted over last six years and disseminate some the key questions that were asked in order to engage students in rating the ideology of Flip Learning, i.e., do they believe that the thinking fits with the needs of higher education?
I will look at questions about how students used the recordings, that are critical to Flip Learning. How many did listen to them and how often. And also, if the micro-test conducted were encouraging students to listen to the recording and how effective they believe that those kinds of tests are. Also, we will look at how students rank the Flip learning form and how they compare it with other classes and teaching conducted in other courses at the University of Iceland.

Keywords: Higher Education, Flip Learning, Recordings, Tests.