The flipped german class. Impact and students’ perception of flipped classes in higher education

Abstract

Flipped Classroom is a pedagogical approach in which certain learning contents are worked on by learners individually prior to classes. Hence, freed time is dedicated in class to learner-teacher interaction, the development of higher-order thinking and practical skills. However, it must be noted that Flipped Classes may work in certain contents, with certain subjects and learners, but in others it may not (Bergmann & Sams, 2012). Consequently, more research is needed “that focuses on who benefits, in what ways and in what contexts” (Hamdan et al., 2013, p. 17). The prsent study investigates the learning outcomes of a German as a foreign language class in economics at a university in the north of Spain.