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Ontological Flip Teaching: a Flip Teaching model based on knowledge management

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Training models are designed for students to acquire knowledge at the individual level. Yet that knowledge is not usually applied later to increase organisational knowledge, as represented by the didactic resources available on a subject, nor to improve the effectiveness of the subject itself. In industrial, economic and production areas, knowledge is considered a part of an organisation’s value. This takes into account the knowledge that is acquired by individuals while doing their work, which can both help improve the work of their peers and increase the overall knowledge available within the organisation. In this work, the student of an educational organisation is considered a person who is able to share the knowledge they have acquired on a given subject so that other students can improve their learning. This work proposes the integration of the classic Flip Teaching model that usually involves students/trainees viewing lectures outside of class time while class time is dedicated to practical exercises, with a knowledge spiral that involves ontological and time dimensions. This integration allows to convert individual knowledge into organisational knowledge through the resources that are created by students over the continuous editions of a training course. A quasi-experimental method proves that the new model, called Ontological Flip Teaching, increases the effectiveness and efficiency of the classic Flip Teaching model in the acquisition of the teamwork competence. The results are based on the students’ opinion about workload and time spent to develop both models, the final grades and the student–student interactions.

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This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Government Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness throughout the DEFINES project (Ref. TIN2016-80172-R). The authors would like to thank the Government of Aragon, the European Social Fund and the Ministry of Education of the Region of Castilla-León, Javier Esteban-Escaño and the research groups GIDTIC (http://gidtic.com), GRIAL (http://grial.usal.es), LITI (http://www.liti.es) for their support.

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  1. Laboratory of Innovation in Information Technologies, LITI, Technical University of Madrid, Calle de Ríos Rosas 21, 28003, Madrid, Spain

    Ángel Fidalgo-Blanco

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Zaragoza, Campus Rio Ebro, Calle de María de Luna 3, 50018, Saragossa, Spain

    María Luisa Sein-Echaluce

  3. Computer Science Department, Research Institute for Educational Sciences, GRIAL Research Group, Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, Plaza de los Caídos S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Francisco José García-Peñalvo

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Fidalgo-Blanco, Á., Sein-Echaluce, M.L. & García-Peñalvo, F.J. Ontological Flip Teaching: a Flip Teaching model based on knowledge management. Univ Access Inf Soc 17, 475–489 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-017-0556-6

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