Flipping from Flipped Classroom to Multimodal Mobile Learning (MML)

Selecting the right training and the right strategy, with the diversification of media and methods, are great challenge for all teaching professionals. Reverse Pedagogy using flipped classroom is a teaching strategy based on a mode where the lecture part of the course is indirectly assigned to students in the form of homework, team projects, video listening or reports to do before meeting the classroom teacher. We have initiated a pioneering work in developing the flipped classroom approach in science and engineering integrating remote laboratory work strategy. In our model, students go through different modes. The proposed Multimode Mobile Learning (MML) model allows students to go through a multitude of modes to enhance their learning. They go from Problem Based Learning (PBL) mode to asynchronous and synchronous distance learning modes by performing team based remote laboratory. The use of mobile Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions has led us to describe our model as a Multimode Mobile Learning (MML) model. This innovative learning approach has been introduced in three different Quebec universities having specific context for each institution. Promising results have been obtained showing that the proposed MML model has a wide range of attributes allowing to enhance students learning interests and skills.