Track: Engineering Education

Abstract

Every teaching situation is unique in terms of learning and teaching styles. To maximize student learning, instructors must find out what works best in a particular situation. Academic instructors need to seek and choose the best teaching methods to communicate and deliver the course content to their students. Moreover, instructors should always be engaged in a continuous search for ways in which to further enhance the learning skills of students by increasing their retention rate in the attainment of better learning outcomes. In this study, experimental action research was implemented using Edger Dale’s Cone of Experience and was employed in a partially flipped class for two engineering management courses for four academic semesters at Prince Sultan University College of Engineering. Edger Dale’s Cone of Experience was employed to positively motivate student learning in an engineering course at PSU. The results show that the students positively accepted the partially flipped class, confirming that the partially flipped class enhanced their knowledge retention.