[Application of Flipped Classroom Teaching Strategy in Nursing Education]

The ultimate purpose of education is to provide students with the skills and motivation necessary for lifelong learning. Students with lifelong learning abilities are better able to continue improving their professional core competencies, especially in terms of problem solving and clinical reasoning. Prior to enhancing lifelong learning abilities, students must learn self-directed learning. Studies have shown that flipped classroom learning has the potential to improve self-directed learning. Flipped classroom teaching requires prerecorded lectures, strengthened teacher-student interaction, and assisting students to learn in-depth. The authors developed a four-phase dynamic case-based learning (4D CBL) innovative teaching strategy and then assimilated this strategy into flipped classroom teaching. This innovative teaching strategy may be used in various academic nursing programs to reinforce self-directed learning and clinical reasoning abilities. After introducing the concepts of flipped classroom teaching and 4-D CBL, how to merge 4D CBL with the flipped classroom model and the effectiveness of this innovative teaching strategy are demonstrated. Nurse educators may use the flipped classroom teaching strategy with 4D CBL in their future practice.