A Hybrid Student-centered Learning Instructional Approaches for a Lecture Based Engineering Class

This paper presents the implementation of a hybrid student-centered instructional approaches namely: flipped classroom, active learning and cooperative learning supported with student response system (web clicker) for a typical lecture based engineering class. Students' perception on the use of these approaches in comparison with traditional lecture based approach were studied using online quantitative survey. A convenient sampling method was used for data collection. A total of 76 students responded out of 151 students. The descriptive statistical analysis of the survey shows that most of the students do consider the effectiveness of the approaches. The use of web clicker encourages students to participate in the learning activity and motivate them to study. The result from the survey was in line with previous results reported in literature for active learning and cooperative learning approaches, and use of clickers.