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The HundrED List of 100 Inspiring Global Innovations of 2017 highlights exemplary educational practices from 41 countries, selected from over 1,000 analyzed innovations based on originality, impact, and scalability. Among these is the Flipped Classroom Project, a program that reimagines traditional teaching by having students first watch teacher-created video lessons at home. Class time is then dedicated to active learning through discussions, assignments, and problem-solving, with teachers providing individualized support. This approach shifts students from passive recipients to active participants, enhancing motivation and academic performance.
Promoted by South Korea’s Future Class Network, an organization committed to transforming education through media and collaborative teacher networks, the Flipped Classroom Project began with a pilot in 2013 in partnership with a national broadcaster. It now supports nearly 20,000 educators, facilitating ongoing advice and experience sharing through its web platform to sustain flipped learning’s effectiveness. HundrED recognizes the project for envisioning and shaping 21st-century education, making it a standout innovation that challenges traditional norms and inspires educational reform globally.
The benefits of such flipped learning are reflected in improved student grades and, more importantly, motivation.
The HundrED List of 100 Inspiring Global Innovations of 2017 compiles what it considers to be best practices in education and knowledge dissemination in 41 countries, from more than 1000 innovations analyzed. To do this, evaluate whether they approach a problem from a new perspective, whether they provide real impact, and their potential scalability (i.e., work elsewhere).
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This project is promoted by the Future Class Network, an organization that aims to change the education system in South Korea, using the media to disseminate educational innovations. It is orchestrated as a web platform “that allows a network of teachers to collaborate, share experiences and challenge the traditional norms of education from its very roots”.
In the case of the Flipped Classroom Project, they have been working – since its first pilot in 2013 – with a national broadcasting company. After years of implementation, they have observed that the benefits of such flipped learning are reflected in improved student grades and, more importantly, in their motivation. “Students have the power to alter their role from passive to active, and the spirit of the classroom has changed,” says Future Class Network.
Since the continuity of flipped classrooms is vital to maintain their effectiveness, it makes it easier for teachers to seek advice on the implementation of the flipped classroom through Future Class Network’s own platform. By 2013, nearly 10,000 teachers had tried to change their classrooms, according to data from the organization, which has 20,000 members.
For HundrED, the main value of this project and of the organization itself – which is why it is part of the 100 innovations on its list – is that it provides ideas of what the education of the future could be like and designs an education of the 21st century within this philosophy.
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