Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development (Jan 2017)

Empowering Pre-Service Teachers to Produce Ubiquitous Flipped Classes

  • Soraya García-Sánchez,
  • Jose Miguel Santos-Espino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v19n1.53857
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 1
pp. 169 – 185

Abstract

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This work focuses on technological and educational outcomes that resulted from the production of foreign language educational videos by 90 pre-service instructors enrolled in an official Master’s Degree in Secondary Education programme. This teaching practice, conducted during two consecutive years, was set in a ubiquitous learning environment with the intention of effectively linking digital technology with pedagogy by means of producing flipped classroom units. The findings reveal that these pre-service teachers successfully combined instructional dynamics with digital skills to produce flipped classes adapted to the young generation’s needs. The classroom becomes, therefore, a more participatory learner-centred scenario with a variety of interactive and collaborative activities performed by foreign language students.

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