Implementation of inverted classroom methodology in 3D modeling course

Abstract

More than one decade 3D modeling in SolidWorks is taught at the Faculty of Mechanincal Engineering at the University of Belgrade (Serbia). As every new skill that has to be mastered, SolidWorks software package demands well-tailored teaching methodology. The best possible way of teaching would be one-on-one tutoring. One teacher per student, who would be absolutely focused on student's task completion, would provide the best results. Unfortunately, due to the lack of teaching staff and vast number of students this approach isn't possible. Instead, one teacher would present the 3D modeling task of interest on the video presenter to a group of 80 students. They would follow the whole presentation and only when the whole presentation ends, students would split into four classrooms with 20 computers each, and practice the presented tasks. During the last decade few major problems in these teaching methods were recognized. A new teaching approach was implemented. This paper presents a novel teaching methodology and achieved results in the teaching process improvement.