Flipped Learning Perspectives: Capturing Further Education Midwifery Learners’ Perceptions of Engagement and Educator Reflections on a Structured Design Approach to Flipped Week.

Abstract

Flipped learning is an intentional, inclusive learner-centred pedagogy that is predicated on guided activity completion pre-class, to allow time in class for engagement with individual and collaborative multiple inclusive methodologies. This paper focuses on a qualitative study undertaken in a further education institution in Ireland between January and March 2023. The aim of the study was to capture learners’ perceptions of flipped learning, including its affordances and challenges, to gather insights into their engagement with the process and in so doing, to address the paucity of research on this topic within a further-educational context in Ireland. Through this study, we show that learners engaged and embraced the intentional and inclusive flipped learning experiences, which they perceived as enhancing their overall learning experience. The findings point to the effectiveness of a structured and guided approach to flipped learning in promoting the development of self-regulated, lifelong learners, which is the goal of further education institutions.