Application of flipped classroom based on the Rain Classroom in the teaching of computer-aided landscape design

Since the age of the Internet was coming, the smart teaching tool Rain Classroom provides new research ideas and directions for education reform. In this paper, the researchers analyzed the characteristics of Rain Classroom, studied the problems in flipped classroom teaching, designed a new flipped classroom teaching mode based on Rain Classroom, and practiced the new mode in a course on computer-aided landscape design. Significant academic differences were shown according to questionnaire surveys of students who experienced Rain Classroom learning compared with a control group learning through traditional lecture-based learning methods. Results suggest that a comparable group of graduate students who participated in the flipped class based on Rain Classroom scored significantly higher (p = .041 < .05) on the "computer-aided landscape design" by an average of >3 percentage points than that of the control group. According to survey data, students learned more from the Rain Class than from a traditional lecture format, and the class also promoted teamwork skills. Our results show learning in the Rain Classroom can improve the students' learning interest, stimulate students' learning initiative, and promote better learning.