Flipped Classroom and Strategies to Improve Academic Performance

Abstract

The information and communication technology has changed the social sphere. Especially, the field of education has been significantly affected by it, since the learning management area introduced ICT into the classroom. The integration of ICT into the classroom has brought forth an unlimited amount of proposals to enhance academic results. Due to it, in this digital era, education demands innovative practices that allow teachers to integrate technology, in order to improve the quality of the teaching and learning process. Such situation, challenges the teachers who face the difficult task to develop new strategies that reinforce the process of knowledge acquisition. High-schools and higher education institutions, have been forced to prompt their teachers to use technology when giving a course, so to improve academic results.
Then after, this document renders a detailed report of flipped classroom approach, as an innovative proposal, foregrounded on the results of a qualitative research of quasi-experimental designed and descriptive scope, performed within the context of a public high-school in Nuevo León. The aim was to find out whether the use of multimedia materials improved academic performance and positively influenced the attitude of science students.