I flipped my tutorials: a case study of implementing active learning strategies in engineering
A variety of active learning strategies havebeen applied to engineering classrooms, includingflipping classrooms by recording lectures and havingstudents watch them outside of class time. In this study, asimilar approach was used for long-answer problemspresented in one-hour tutorial sessions. Problemsolutions were recorded and made available online.Instead of solving long-answer problems, tutorials beganwith a review of relevant material. The review was thenfollowed by independent working time where studentswere free to interact with the teaching assistant anddiscuss concepts with one another while working on anonline quiz.Students generally responded very positively tothe changes and appreciated the ability to go throughproblem solutions at their own pace with the recordings.In tutorials, the quizzes were successful at encouragingdiscussion of course content amongst students. Thetechniques also provided a repository of online videosand quizzes to be used in future course iterations.