Reflections on flipped classroom and digitized laboratory concept in building automation courses

Abstract

In the last decade, innovative digitized teaching concepts were developed to improve the learning environment of students. Also due to actual restrictions concerning classroom teaching during the corona pandemic, these concepts are increasingly spreading in daily university life. This article describes our experience of the last five years with digitized lecture and laboratory based on the flipped classroom concept. A comparison to the classic teaching form is difficult to achieve in daily university practice. Thus, the paper reflects the applicability of flipped classroom format for control engineering and building automation based on subjective experiences of students and tutors, as well as lecturers.