The flipped classroom is basically what the college is engaging now: allowing students to access equipments and prepared creative projects with peers and learning through creative process rather than following guides and homework prepared by teachers or tutors. This is a self-teaching system that it is believe to encourage self reflection and social interaction during collaborative projects among students. From an online supporting document on the flipped classroom, it states that 'The flipped model puts more of the responsibility for learning on the shoulders of students while giving them greater impetus to experiment.' which is true compare to the traditional teaching methods where student only try to capture what is being said by the speaker, they cant stop to reflect upon what is being said and may miss significant points because they are trying to transcribe the instructor's words.
I have a lot of experience on the advantages of flipped classroom since I came from HongKong where traditional teaching is very popular and all the students are aiming for high marks and results, blindly follow guides and totally lost the meaning of teaching. The students in HongKong are very stressed in education and there are only little chance of having group discussion that disable creative thinking or any reflection among them. Their social skills are not as good as other countries and many graduated students struggle with the reality when starting their career. I am very grateful about the flipped classroom system in the UK and I care less about result but enjoy the interaction between peers and tutor. However, there might also be some downsides of this system, such as students may get additional work and require new skills for the instructor and it is a slow learning curve. Lack of direct teaching might also be a problem where some students might be learning better under clear instruction and might not get enough support from the tutors.
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