THE ESSENCE OF TRADITIONAL TEACHING METHODOLOGY OVER WEB BASED LEARNING -TRADITIONAL VS. FLIPPED CLASSROOM TEACHING METHOD

摘要

The traditional teaching method involves a teacher centric approach where a teacher explains the concepts and gives home work to revise. In today's web based world, the methodology is becoming cliched against the flipped classroom approach based on video lectures, podcasts, and personalized home-based e-learning with discussion and practical applications in the classroom. Both methods need a teacher but there is a significant difference between the outcomes of learning for students. In India where there are many students in a classroom, an authoritative approach helps in reaching the mass. It supports the learning of the students where the learners are on same platform and taught from basics and all equally. One cannot ignore the benefits of flipped classroom which has an essence of covering more content and in more versatile way. However, in this exercise the few learners can be benefitted and few can lose on their learning due to no preparation of content at home. In India, the learner does not get a choice based grading education system always. Learner needs constant guidance, assistance and sometimes forceful dissemination of knowledge. According to Blooms Taxonomy first 2 levels of learning are remember and understand. Though they are being taken as the lowest levels of the triangle, they are the main base of learner's foundation system. Hence using application based learning from flip classroom and an authoritative approach for firming the fundamentals with mass would make learning extremely interesting and fruitful. For this paper the class sample size of 100 was divided equally among traditional and flipped classroom method. Both the learning's were compared and carefully studied. This paper tries to highlight on the traditional ways along with modern techniques which leads to progressive teaching learning process.