APPLYING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING FOR A FLIPPED CLASSROOM MODEL IN TEACHING THE GENERAL INFORMATICS COURSE AT THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

Agricultural Education

Nowadays, Information Technology (IT) plays a more and more important role and becomes one of the effective tools for teachers and students in the current digital transformation era. For students, in addition to training basic knowledge and skills, they need to be able to update themselves with the cutting-edge technologies in their professional fields to meet the requirements of their future careers. Therefore, the selection of appropriate teaching methods to improve the students' professional capacity is one of the core issues in every training program today. Project-based learning and the flipped classroom model have been implemented in many educational institutions and brought about many positive effects in teaching such as: Through the implementation of learning projects, students have chance to solve a case study associated with practice and can create practical products with high applicability. The flipped classroom model helps students promote their ability of self-study. In addition, students can actively arrange the time, the place as well as the duration for their study to suit themselves. General Informatics is one of the compulsory subjects in many training program at the undergraduate level in general and at Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry in particular (TUAF). The course provides students with basic knowledge and skills about computers, computer networks, internet and Microsoft Office in order to serve their learning process and achieve the learning outcome of the training program as well as use them in their future professional career. The feature of the course is the high applicability and reality. Therefore, in order to improve the teaching and learning quality of this module, we propose a teaching method that combines the project-based learning and the flipped classroom model. By exploiting the advantages of IT in active teaching methods, this strategy will help students promote their self-study ability, problem-solving ability, as well as train and develop themselves new skills, necessary soft skills.

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