Preliminary results from a flipped classroom experience:
Getting an insight from the real marks
Jaime Busquets, Carlos Turró

Universitat Politècnica de València
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Flipped Classroom – Results?

Universitat Politècnica de València
www.upv.es
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
• Located in Valencia
(Spain)
• 40,000 students
• 35 degrees in 15
faculties
• Mainly technical studies:
– Engineering
– Architecture
– Business
– Fine Arts

Universitat Politècnica de València
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A long history in applying IT to learning
Polimedia
Videoapuntes
Poli[ReunióN]
PoliformaT
Networked
teaching
Politube

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Polimedia
• System for creating
Video Learning
Objects
• Presented in EUNIS
2009
Polimedia
Videoapun
tes
Poli[ReunióN]
PoliformaT
Networked
teaching
Politube
Polimedia

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Videoapuntes
• System for Lecture
Recording
• Using Opencast
• Presented in EUNIS
2013
Polimedia
Videoapun
tes
Poli[ReunióN]
PoliformaT
Networked
teaching
Politube
Videoapuntes

Universitat Politècnica de València
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PoliformaT
• University-wide
LMS
• Using Sakai
• Presented in EUNIS
2006
Polimedia
Videoapun
tes
Poli[ReunióN]
PoliformaT
Networked
teaching
Politube
PoliformaT

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Networked Teaching
• Global plan for
empowering
teachers in IT
• Presented in EUNIS
2014
Polimedia
Videoapun
tes
Poli[ReunióN]
PoliformaT
Networked
teaching
Politube
Networked
Teaching

Universitat Politècnica de València
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In-house learning resources
2007 2008 2009 2010
2010 -
2011
2011 -
2012
2012 –
2013 TOTAL
Polimedia 1626 979 1124 1144 1353 1846 2102 10174
Standard video
recordings 144 135 100 37 39 33 33 521
Virtual Labs 188 261 202 138 132 106 108 1135
Screencasts 66 48 37 66 217
Learning Modules 51 42 34 25 21 23 196
OCW sites 30 34 26 9 10 10 119
Lecture Recording
hours 144 512 2486 3142
Transcripted
Recordings 10174

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Next Steps
MOOC
Flipped
Classroom

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UPV Flipped Classroom project

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UPV Flipped Classroom project
• 3-year Project
• 2013-2014 Design and plan
• 2014-2015 Test deployment
– Call for interested teachers in April 2015
• 2015- 2016 in production
– Aiming for 100-200 teachers

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The test deployment
• One group in the 2nd year in Informatics and another
in Business studies
• Students enrollment in not compulsory
• 20 courses, where:
– 2 yearly
– 18 semester
• 25 teachers

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The test deployment (2)
• Great flexibility on how to flip
• Different levels of flipping
– Polimedia videos/Screencast
– PDFs
– Lab Exercises
– Etc.
• Students choose flipped/not flipped for ALL courses
• Same assessment than the other students
– Classical group
– Flipped group

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Evaluation
• Continuous evaluation during the
experience
• Two panels
– Teachers’ panel
– Students’ panel
• Quantitative results

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Teachers’ panel
• Pros
– Better preparation of materials and lectures (both teachers and
students)
– Students got more involved, prepared and motivated
– Good classroom atmosphere.
– “I can design more attractive class activities”
• Improvements for the next year
– Preparation of teachers to apply this methodology.
– Students have to be motivated for self-study and previous work
– Smaller groups (ideally 30)

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Students’ panel

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Students’ panel.
Flipped Teaching is different
• “… having the course flipped enables the
teacher to do different things”
• “… I get more from the classroom time, so I had
to study less before the exam”
• “… I get the syllabus more structured, and I do in
small steps but at the end I learn more”
• “Working before the lecture time is a must”

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Students’ panel .
They like videos
• “ … I didn’t feel dificulties, I watched the video,
send the quiz and that’s all”
• “As the videos got recorded, I can go back and
review after the classroom time”
• “… with the videos I don’t need to open a book”

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Students’ panel .
They think they learn more
• “… if I study each day I learn more ;-)”
• “… I think we are better prepared that my
colleagues from the classical group in the
practical aspects”
• “…I feel that the continuous evaluation helps to
remember more things on the long term”

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Students’ panel .
Lights and shadows
• “… I like working in small groups in the lecture hall”
• “…I feel that continuous evaluation is a bit stressing”
• “… some teachers understood the Project in a
different way that others”
• “... I would have preferred to have teaching as
usual” but “… has been a good experience for me, I
would like to have flipped for all my courses”

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Marks comparison
2013-2014 (Classical Learning)
2014-2015(FlippedLearning)

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Conclusions
• Good acceptance by teachers despite the increased
workload.
• Great acceptance by students despite the increased
workload…
– …and the fact that they have to pass the same test than other groups.
• Preliminary results suggest that the best students improve
their grades…
– …although perhaps the not-so-good ones got worse results
So, we move on for the 2015-2016 year 

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Thanks a lot for your time!