Abstract

Higher education courses with diverse group projects can be found in various subjects, like engineering, medicine, arts, education, and so on. One common problem lies in that students usually concern with their own project, while less attention is casted into experimental procedures of other groups, leaving an undesired learning outcome and intellectual resources neglected. This project aims to develop an innovative pedagogical approach: A student-directed flipped classroom is proposed, where students maximize the learning outcome by recording the experimental procedure, producing and editing their videos for teaching students from other groups. Combined with new teaching methodologies, like online peer-evaluation, forum discussion, and student self-made quizzes, this teaching and learning pedagogy enables multi­dimensional communications and interactions in sorts of levels including inner-group, inter­ group, student-instructor, inside-outside the screen. More importantly, hands-on experience of independent groups in conducting experiment or practical lab sessions would be recorded, reviewed, discussed, deliberated, and in the end, efficiently learned by other groups. The project will demonstrate its effectiveness in existing courses (UGEB1307 Energy and Green society, EEEN2020 Renewable Energy Technologies) where a “Smart Garden” is planning to be constructed based on the innovation and design of student groups via kinds of renewable energy devices and recycling facilities.