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Table 4 Participant suggestions for the FC-TBL teaching strategy

From: Online flipped classroom with team-based learning promoted learning activity in a clinical laboratory immunology class: response to the COVID-19 pandemic

FC-TBL (n, %)

Examples from survey responses

Positive suggestions (15, 48.38%)

  Frequency and interval time (8, 25.81%)

a) Choosing one topic for each chapter to teach with TC-TBL

b) Appropriately increasing the times and class hours of FC-TBL

  Options or types of FC-TBL (5, 16.13%)

a) Expanding forms, and deadlines can be appropriately flexible

b) Giving more available topics

c) Adding some incentives for outstanding students

  Learning effect (2, 6.45%)

Class is lively and interesting, and help to master the obscure knowledge

Suggestions for improvement (8, 25.81%)

  Evaluation Rules and Equity (4, 12.90%)

a) Not everyone has opportunity to show their talents due to the class time which affected the evaluation to the student

b) Evaluation rules based on the difficulty of topics, students’ performance and cost time

c) Give more students opportunities to show their talents

  Frequency and interval time (4, 12.90%)

a) The time interval between flipped classrooms was too close

b) FC-TBL takes not too long time in and after class