Offering Flipped Teaching Training to Faculty at Rural Nursing Programs

Abstract

Flipped teaching is a practical instructional method where the lecture is shifted out of the classroom, thus allowing time for rehearsing and mastering the content through in-class activities and formative assessments. Innovative Flipped Learning Instructional Project or IFLIP is a pilot study involving faculty and their students of rural nursing programs to develop clinical judgment and critical thinking skills essential to enter the healthcare workforce to serve their communities. Most students in these rural programs are marginalized, under-resourced, and come from underserved high schools. Rural nursing programs may also need more resources to provide faculty training in innovative student-centered teaching methods to develop classroom activities and promote clinical judgment. The instructional approach of the faculty before and after the proposed faculty development training was assessed using surveys and course design data. Through rigorous mixed-methods research, the study measured the impact of the nursing faculty transition from the traditional lecture method to the flipped teaching format by capturing the design, implementation, and refinement of their courses. It was found that the flipped teaching training significantly enhanced knowledge among all participants. More specifically, the faculty felt confident creating instructional videos, designing assessments of pre-class work, and assessing student learning. Thus, the flipped teaching training helped faculty be prepared to engage students in their classrooms. Illinois Innovation Network This is the full abstract presented at the American Physiology Summit 2023 meeting and is only available in HTML format. There are no additional versions or additional content available for this abstract. Physiology was not involved in the peer review process.