FLIPPED CLASSROOM: AN INVENTIVE LEARNING APPROACH IN ENGAGING 21STCENTURY LEARNERS IN DIGITAL AGE

Nowadays, ini digital era, traditional classroom which mostly provide face-to-face lectures in classroom and doing homework at home is not relevant anymore with learners’ learning style as “digital natives”. Teacher as “digital immigrant” must be able to make some adaptation to learning approach in order that the learners can attend meaningful learning for their daily life and future career. The present paper aims to review of flipped classroom as an inventive learning approach which could accomodate 21st century learners to have better learning engagement through digital technology in instructional practices. The elaboration will include some related sub-topics, namely (1) concept and definition of flipped classroom, (2) theoretical backgroud of flipped classroom, (3) benefits and obstacles of flipped classroom and (4) cycles of flipped classroom implementation