Designing a Flipped Learning Model-Based Laboratory Safety Course for Undergraduates

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought many changes in the education system as in many systems in the world. The distance education system, which developed and became widespread during the pandemic, continues its impact with hybrid models adopted after the pandemic. Flipped learning model, one of these hybrid models, has been widely used since the pandemic. This study makes an attempt at designing the laboratory safety course offered in chemistry teaching department in flipped learning model. The subjects of laboratory safety course were based on flipped learning model, one of the hybrid learning models, so as to be able to teach them more effectively and to secure retention in learning due to the fact that laboratory work forms the foundation of applied sciences like chemistry; and as a result, a 14-week course was designed. Four themes labelled as the “pre-class and teaching the class,” “post-class activities,” “general views on the model,” and “the use of the model in the future professional life,” in the interviews with seven students who volunteered to join the application in week 14.