This Moodle page is part of the 2021 Campus Plus TIRI Showcase.
Title: Combining E-Learning and Face-to-Face Teaching – The Digitally Enhanced Flipped Classroom
In contrast to many other disciplines, law has been slow to implement innovative teaching strategies. There are many contributing factors. One significant factor can be found in the seemingly insurmountable quantity of information that needs to be conveyed in each lecture, often at the expense of practical skills training. Flipped classroom strategies are a convenient form of blended learning, whereby the content heavy learning elements are provided via reading tasks which are to be completed by students before they attend their lectures, thereby freeing up valuable face-to-face class time for live problem-solving activities. In theory, this approach presents an ideal solution to assist law teachers with the balancing of content and practical skills development and increased student engagement. 10 However, this approach only works effectively, if all students complete their reading tasks.
Yet, the past decades have witnessed a reduction of reading being undertaken in education – a trend which often is attributed to an increased usage of electronic devices. In the School of Law, the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated how the popularity of devices such as laptops, tablet PCs and smartphones could be utilised to integrate more interactive digitally enhanced blended learning formats into structured legal learning environments. With this transition, the flipped classroom (FC) allowed for the effectively combining of e-learning and face-to-face teaching components. Tools, such as the H5P Moodle plugin or SCORM packages have enabled the School of Law to digitally enhance our flipped classroom strategies to increase student engagement by offering more interactive methods of knowledge acquisition than the traditional reading lists.
- Teacher: Alicia Danielsson