Innovation in Distance, E- And Blended Learning in Educational Mass Production Using Inverted Classroom Model (Icm)

Due to cutbacks in universities budgets and growing numbers of students in the industrialized countries and the emerging economies lecturers often are facing the problem teaching huge numbers of students, which causes a lack of supervision and personal support. This so called educational mass production is lamented by both students and lecturers. This field report gives an overview on the authors experience while developing and testing an E-Prototype of a Distance Learning system that was developed on the basis of the course room and learning content management system Moodle and tested during winter semester 2012/13 at the University of Applied Science Ingolstadt (today Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt). The set up followed the methodology of Inverted Class Room Model and was tested with two student groups (part time students and regular students). In total 440 students, four tutors and four professors were involved in this test case.