Using ePUB3 eBook-based Project-Inquired Quality Talk to Enhance Students’ Learning Effects in Flipped Classes

Abstract

In flipped learning, students take learning activities based on their preferred ways to promote their learning interests and effects. For its advantages, we presented earlier an ePUB3 eBook-based problem-inquired quality talk flipped learning model that supports students’ learning by ePUB3 eBooks and Problem-solving Inquired Quality Talk discussions. In this paper, to enhance further the students’ discussion effects, we explore the employment of a more practical Project-based Inquired Quality Talk method in students’ discussions to form a new ePUB3- based project-inquired quality talk flipped learning model. As a result, the new model provides students in their discussions with project-based inquiry steps to find the solutions of a designated project where quality talk questions/responses are executed in each inquiry step. For illustration, the model is applied to a ‘Reading & Writing’ class at a university in Taiwan where a comparative study on students’ reading & writing abilities in experimental and controlled groups is taken to validate its usefulness.