An interactive e-book approach to supporting flipped learning in an elementary school math course

Abstract

In this paper, interactive e-books were developed to enable students to learn at home in the flipped learning mode. Using the interactive e-books, students can learn by themselves before the class and apply what they have learned to the classroom activities later in schools. Moreover, the teachers can monitor the students’ learning status based on the e-book learning logs recorded in a cloud system. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, an experiment was conducted in an elementary school math course. A total of 45 students participating in the experiment were assigned to an experimental group and a control group. The students in the experimental group learned with the proposed approach, while those in the control group learned with the conventional technology-enhanced learning. From the experimental results, it was found that the proposed approach significantly improved the students’ learning achievement.