Applying Flipped Learning Approach in the Teaching of Electronic CAD Technology

To face the pedagogical challenges in application-oriented higher education, the flipped learning (FL) has become a newly emerging instructional approach in university courses. Before class, the students learn the relevant knowledges individually through various online sources prepared by teacher. And then, they are engaged in classroom activities to discuss the issues concluded from the learning process with classmates or inductor and practice the teamwork and problem-solving skills. In this paper, the drawbacks of traditional teacher-centered instructional approach in teaching of electronic CAD technology course are analysed. To overcome the conflicts between urgent need of practical training and traditional in-class theory teaching in application-oriented course, the FL strategy is proposed and discussed. And the steps of applying the proposed flipped strategy to the electronic CAD technology course are described. The practical teaching results show that the FL approach can effectively motivate the engagement and self-confidence of the student. Moreover, the increasing in-class peer interaction, which aims at the problems feedback from each student, can dramatically improve the efficiency of knowledge transferring. The proposed approach help teacher teach students according to their level, and have obtained the positive feedbacks from both teacher and students.