From Practice to Experiment: Development and Enlightenment of Flipped Classroom in China

Abstract

The concept of flipped classroom is becoming more and more popular in the field of education, however, the flipped classroom isn't creative concept. It can be referred from the three stages of open and distance education, learning from books combined with face to face coach in correspondence education, TV remote learning combined with a face to face coach in radio and television education, Online courses combined with face to face coach or online tutoring in online education. Attention and discussion of flipped classroom is inevitable historically. It's learners-centered, and its core is blended learning model. The flipped classroom is a kind of innovative practice in the field of distance education. Flipped classroom in traditional education institutions is an active exploration of society, schools and students at present. It's still in the stage of experiment. The author suggested to keep learners as the center, to adapt to the social personnel training needs, to promote blended learning model on the base of flipped classroom, rather than promoting flipped classroom indiscriminately.