Un’esperienza didattica half-flipped in un ambiente di apprendimento SCALE-UP

In this paper we describe a teaching experiment with a “blended” approach based on the integration of frontal lessons, flipped learning, Peer Discussion, Just in Time teaching and e-learning, also carried out using the social platform Edmodo and a Facebook group. The development of the students’ skills was monitored by means of three tests administered within the experiment; in parallel, we monitored the motivation level and the at-titude towards the discipline through an affect test and a satisfaction survey. Some students had two additional hours per week based on cooperative learning in a SCALE UP learning environment. The research methodology falls within the Educational Reconstruction framework, that allowed us to investigate didactical phenomena, de-signing and creating learning environment, artefacts, teaching and learning sequences in authentic educational contexts. The results of the affect test showed a better attitude towards the discipline; from the satisfaction sur-vey it emerged that most of the students liked the use of alternative methodologies. The results of our experimen-tation were analysed also from the point of view of disciplinary learning, comparing the students’ performances with the results of a test of a previous cohort of students who attended the same course.