DEVELOPING REFLECTIVE SKILLS IN E-LEARNING: A CASE STUDY BASED ON THE FLIPGRID PLATFORM Cover Image

DEVELOPING REFLECTIVE SKILLS IN E-LEARNING: A CASE STUDY BASED ON THE FLIPGRID PLATFORM
DEVELOPING REFLECTIVE SKILLS IN E-LEARNING: A CASE STUDY BASED ON THE FLIPGRID PLATFORM

Author(s): Emanuele Isidori, Angela Magnanini, Alessandra Fazio, Irina Leonova, Mario De Martino, Iosif Sandor
Subject(s): Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Health and medicine and law, Accounting - Business Administration, Marketing / Advertising, Distance learning / e-learning
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: E-learning; Flipgrid; reflective skills; Open Educational Resources;

Summary/Abstract: Flipgrid is a free app and platform that allows students to record short video responses. These videos are usually reflections or responses to specific topics/prompts asked by their teachers. This study aims to deepen the potentiality and effectiveness of Flipgrid in virtual learning environments for university students. Moreover, it aims to understand whether such a platform is really beneficial for developing reflective skills, meets students interests and gets their approval. To deepen these issues, we have analyzed the results of a case study conducted at the University of Rome Foro Italico, Italy, where Flipgrid was used as a support for delivering a course on education and European values and getting students to reflect in a deeper way on the topics and issues entailed. The data were collected through three principal phases. In the first one, within the framework of an exploratory study, a survey questionnaire containing items based on the Likert scale was administered to a general sample of University of Rome Foro Italico students. In the following phase, a focus group was conducted with a small group of students attending the course mentioned above, and in the third one, the students from the course were in-depth interviewed. The data were processed by statistical and text analysis software. The data were then interpreted and compared. The data results allowed us to obtain information and a map to understand the Flipgrid app/platform's effectiveness. From the data collected, at the end of the study, we were able to sketch a model for using the new app in a way so that it can help students develop reflective skills in e-learning in the most effective way.

  • Issue Year: 17/2021
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 423-429
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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