Students and professors swap roles: teaching is "turned on its head" in flipped lessons.
In Professor Sophia Keil's Manufacturing Management course at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Industrial Engineering, teaching is being turned "upside down". Since the start of the 2018 summer semester, the flipped classroom method has been tried out in the course. Students work on learning content on their own at home and apply it at the university. In addition to acquiring subject-specific knowledge, they should also develop their social-communicative skills (in particular communication skills, cooperation skills, integration skills, teamwork skills, experimentation skills and language skills). In this article, you can find out how this currently works and what trends there are.
To enable students to learn in a targeted manner, managers from the field and lecturers from our university present current topics such as failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), time management, decision-making using dashboards and design thinking as part of subject-specific impulses in the form of coaching sessions. The students then work in groups to develop content on predefined methods of production optimization in order to learn how the strategic target variables of cost, time and quality can be improved in production.
The aim is for the students to present their results in the form of a presentation and self-designed exercise for their fellow students and the module supervisor as part of a colloquium. After a review by a jury, the results are revised in a learning loop. Following a video production workshop, these topics are then visualized in the form of explanatory videos. The students are enabled to familiarize themselves independently and on their own responsibility with scientific procedures in subject areas, to learn them and then to teach them to other people.
After the course is completed in the summer, you will find out in the next article how the method was received by the students and what conclusions the module leaders draw.
The Manufacturing Management course is organized by the Learning to Learn project of the Careers Service and the Public Relations Office of Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences.