The Challenges of Flipped Learning: A Qualitative Content Analysis

Subject Areas : Learning

hafez  sahebyar ¹ (PhD student in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran.)
Ramin  Habibi-Kaleybar ² (Professor in Educational Psychology, Department Educational Sciences, Educational Sciences and Psychology Faculty, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.)
Javad  Mesrabadi ³ (Professor in Educational Psychology, Department Educational Sciences, Educational Sciences and Psychology Faculty, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.)
Abolfazl  Farid ⁴ (Associate Professor in Educational Psychology, Department Educational Sciences, Educational Sciences and Psychology Faculty, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.)

Received: 2022-11-06 Accepted : 2023-03-01 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: Qualitative Content Analysis, flipped learning, challenges and barriers,

Abstract :

The rapid progress and changes in technology, the increasing use of smart devices, multimedia and Internet, and on the other hand, the epidemic of Covid-19, have directed educational systems towards virtual education and hybrid models such as flipped learning. The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying and classifying the challenges of flipped learning implementation. This study is a qualitative research with inductive content analysis approach; and its statistical population includes two groups. The first group includes a collection of articles that were related to the purpose of the research. At this stage, articles were searched from scientific journals and reliable databases such as: Noormags, Magiran and SID in Persian language between 1393-1401; and search in foreign databases such as Scopus, ProQuest, Wiley, ERIC, and Google Scholar in English between 2013-2022. The keywords were: "flipped learning", "flipped instruction", "flipped classroom", "challenges", "barriers". After the initial search of the mentioned databases, a total of 1113 sources with the indicated keywords were obtained. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of 100 scientific research articles were purposefully selected for analysis. In addition to the systematic review of the articles, in order to identify more and more precisely the challenges and ensure the findings from the articles, the second group of the statistical community, that includes professors and educational experts, in the fields of educational technology , educational management, lesson planning, educational psychology and teachers who implemented the flipped learning model were referred; Among them, 15 people were selected purposefully; And they were interviewed online. The results show that the implementation challenges of flipped learning can be identified in 8 categories. Challenges related to: the learner, teacher and school, content, instruction, family, managerial and operational, ethical and security and technical and technological

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