EVALUATING THE RESULTS OF USING OERS, PERS, BLENDING AND FLIPPING TO DELIVER A COMPUTER SYSTEMS MODULE TO YEAR 1 STUDENTS

摘要

The key aim of this project is to incentivise higher education students to engage with a Year 1 Computer Systems module through a blended and flipped classroom approach. Attendance at the traditional lecture is in decline for a variety of reasons. The concept for this module is to encourage self-directed learning (SDL) through reading Proprietary Educational Resource (PER) material and watching Open Educational Resource (OER) video in advance of class assessments. The actual class time is used for discussion of the content of lessons using PowerPoint summaries, watching related videos, online assessment and laboratory work. The project aims to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of this approach. The results of this project are examined and discussed, after a one-year implementation, by means of a survey of these students.