Flipped EFL
Learning and COIL
During the COVID-19
Hiroyuki Obari (Ph.D.)
Aoyama Gakuin University
60th JACET International Convention

August 28th, 2021

Outline
Paradigm shift
Required skills for 21s century
Pedagogy
Technologies
Two Case Studies
Feedback
SummaryConclusion

Society 5.0

Society 5.0
Super-Smart

Integration of Cyber Space & Physical Space
Economic Development and Social Problems
Algorithm

Society 4.0
Information

Society 3.0
Industrial

Society 2.0
AgrarianSociety 1.0
Hunting

Data-driven Society

21st century, Society 5.0, DX
The 21st century has already brought astonishingtechnological achievements.
Internet of Things, AI Cyber-physical systems,
VR/AR/MR, Big Data
Our lives are transformed in many ways, andeducation is dramatically affected.
How to create a successful transition into new waysof language education in the 21st Century.

Paradigm ShiftSociety 5.0

ICT/ Mobile

Crowd Environments

Technologies

Seamless Learning

Artificial
Intelligence/Big

COVID-19

Data/IoT

Digital technologies change

Way of life,

Ways ofWay of thinking,communication,

Worldviews

Social skills,

Social behavior

Channels ofinfluence on otherpeople (SNS)Teacher’s roles

Facilitator

CuratorMentor

Changes in teachers’ role
Teachers are expected to support the learning processby assigning the appropriate scope of learning tostudent instead of giving the lectures, creatingquestions, and marking.
Feedbacks are especially important to raise students’motivations.

Changes in teachers’ role
Teachers are expected to support the learning processby assigning the appropriate scope of learning tostudent instead of giving the lectures, creatingquestions, and marking,Feedbacks are especially important to raise students’motivations.

stRequired skills for 21century Learning

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy(McNulty, 2018)
Educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom developed a taxonomy of learning
objectives in 1956, as a structure to understand the learning process.

HigherOrder
Thinking
SkillsLower
Order
Thinking
Skills
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ZOOM
LMS
Course Power
MoodlePowerPoint
MP4 movie
SNSFacebook
Messenger
Line
Slack
Flipgrid
Deep L
Grammarly
TrinkaQuizletPeerEval

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What is a Digital Storytelling?
PPT slides → MP4 Movie
Digital story is a first-person narrative that tells a personal story
in one’s voice and style.
DS is a process blending media to enrich and enhance thewritten or spoken word.
DS merges the traditional art of storytelling with the power of
new technologies.
Students can demonstrate creative thinking, constructknowledge, and develop innovative products.

Social Constructionism

New knowledge throughsocial interactionand exchanging
information(Burr,1995,2003)

Build Ideas throughExperiential Learning,
Jean Piaget (Bandura, 1977)

Retention rates

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Assessment

Assessment (Portfolio)
Pre-Test vs Post-test (TOEIC, Versant Speaking, OPIc)
Assess presentation with PeerEval

MPEG-4 movie product (PowerPoint slides + Voice)Engagement by Observation (Filiming each lesson)

Comments about the use ofPeerEval➢It is easy to reflect on presentation toimprove weakness and quickly to get
the mean score among evaluators.

➢Quick feedback

Two Case Studies➢Case Study 1: During COVID-19 (AGU, n=19)➢Case Study 2: COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning n=38)
AGU (n=19) vs. NUS (National University of Singapore, n=19)
CBL(Challenge-based learning)
TBL(Task-based learning)
PBL(Problem-based learning)
MPEG4 video + Flipgrid

The Specific Purposes:➢To develop students’ higher order thinking skills and worldviews.
➢ What is your life purpose? Metaphysics➢ Interaction with CCC students from U.S.A.

➢ To acquire 21st century skills to prepare for digitalized societies.
➢ To acquire a more cross-culturally sensitive understanding via ICT
COIL（Collaborative Online International Learning）Developmentof CQ.
➢ To improve English proficiency and presentation skills.

st1

Case Study
April 2020~January 2021
Beyond the classroom
Task-based or Challenge-based
Learning

PedagogyCrowd Learning Environments:
Flipped learning: CBL(Challenge-based Learning), TBL (Task-basedLearning),

Input: Outside the class•SNS, AI, Web, Digital text, Mobile Technologies

Output: Inside the class• Presentation, Discussion, Interaction, Evaluation

Flipped Learning (Input →Output)
LMS
Materials

PeerEval

Outside the class

Facebook

PPT slides

Share

Essay writing

GlobalEducation

AI + VR

https://www.trinka.ai/jp/
https://app.grammarly.com/
https://www.deepl.com/ja/
translator

Interaction

Presentation

Q&A

Recording

Assessment

MP4

ZOOM Room

Flipgrid forSpeaking

Digitalized Society 5.0

Curator’s role

Edutec (21st century skills)
AI and Society

10 Topics tobe covered:(15 lessons)
URL links
Documents
Videos

Cross-Cultural IQ
Global leadership
Worldviews / Ontology & Epistemology
Science & Theology
World Heritage
17 SDGs
Global issues from Oxford Martin School
Presentation skills

Worldviews related to Higher Order Thinking
The way you
look at theworld

What you believein(religious belief)

Cosmology(universe, etc.)

Evolution vs.
Creation

The meaning ofHumans

Cause andEffectConcept ofTime (past,present, future)

Rituals (funeral,marriage, NewYear, etc.)

The Globalization of ourworld requires us todevelop CQ andunderstand worldviews!

Active participation (Output)

Flippedlessons

More interactive activities
Improve English proficiency

Feel more inspired and satisfactionAutonomous learningAssessment (Portfolio)
Pre-test vs Post-test (TOEIC, OPIc Speaking)Assess presentation with PeerEval
MPEG-4 movie product (PowerPoint slides + Voice)Engagement by Observation (videotape each lesson)

Questionnaire

5: I totally agree

4: I somewhat agree

3: Neutral

2: I somewhat disagree

1: I totally disagreeDid flipped learning help to improve yourautonomous learning? 100% (n=19)
0%
8%

92%

Strongly Agree

Agree

NeutralDisagree

Strongly DisagreeDid PPTS presentation help to improve yourEnglish proficiency? 97% (n=19)
DisagreeStrongly Disagree

4%0%

Neutral0%
Agree
25%

Strongly Agree71%

Strongly Agree

Agree

NeutralDisagree

Strongly DisagreeDid Prof. Weakley’s lecture change your worldviews to be more open-minded?
90% (N=19)
0% 3%

7%

42%

48%

Totally agree

Somewhat agree

NeturalNot agree

Not much agree

nd2Case Studies

International Exchange with NUS
Enjoyed the exchange program in personfor 10 years
Online Virtual Exchange

交流写真+Zoom 動画

I：Joint Research Project
8 weeks, Joint Seminar 90 minutes③ Group 3: 環境の教官隊 C

Littering Problems in Japan and Singapore andAttitudes toward the Environment①CHIANG YI CHEN REBECCALOH JONINASUN YU HSIANG

Group 1: 今日行くよ木村 優作
武長 毅
田丸 幸四郎西尾 碧凜

Survey on attitudes toward the home study environment
ALEXIS TONG CHUAN YAN
LIM YI XUANTAN CHANG LOONG MATTHEWTANG JIAWEN CHERYL

沢崎 俊介
竹内 梨緒
蒔田 雄志
松本 悠生

Attitudes toward the relationship between environmentand health among university students
ARIVARUN ANBUALAGANCHOO LI YINGITO AYUMI
MAKI TAMAMI② Group 2: パンダ

Contact tracking technology for new COVID-19 andData Privacy Survey
CHEN SUI-SHIN SUNG JIA SHENGXU ENWEI④ Group 4: 当たり馬

青沼 周平
須田 有香
辻 和泰
若松 天

神尾 賢治
サイ・フ酒井 基揮⑤ Group 5: 環境守り隊

Attitudes towards veganism among university students
in Singapore and Japan
CHAN YIN HAN
LEE CHEE HONG
TAN YI LING
WONG QING-NING

池原 由莉果小澤 秀仁
加藤 智哉
三浦 歩

LAJ4205 Expository Writing & Public Speaking
Semester 1 2020 - 21

Joint Research Project
Presentation
NUS ＆ AGU
2020, November 10, 2020 (Tuesday)
Singapore time: 18：00
Japan time: 19 : 00

- 20：00- 21 : 00

NUS(n=19) vs AGU(n=19) Presentation

Second part： Challenges and prospects in the Corona disaster1. 「To achieve SDGs」

3. 「AI and Society」

Presenter: Rio Takeuchi
Sora Wakamatsu

Presenter: Kenji KamioTakashi Makita

4. 「Japan’s modern problems」
2. 「How to survive with COVID19」

Presenter: Yuuka Suda
Motoki Sakai

Presenter: Shuhei Aonuma
Yurika IkeharaWe had a virtual online international exchange with Singapore University via zoom. Through thisexchange, did you learn about cross-cultural communication, cultural differences, and do you think it
influenced your own way of seeing things, thinking, and worldviews? 90% agreed. (n=19)
0%
0%

37%

10%53%

I totally agree

I somewhat agree

I somewhat diasgree

I totally disagree

NeutralWe had an international exchange with Singapore University throughreal-delivered ZOOM. Do you think that this exchange helped you toimprove your English skills? 79% agreed.(n=19)
5%

16%

0%
26%

53%

I totally agree

I somewhat agree

I somewhat diasgree

I totally disagree

NeutralVirtual lesson for 8 months （n=60 vs 40)
45 minutes per week (1 vs 3 or 4 students)

Coexistence with VR and Physical Reality

Amazon Alexa +VR Future
Mixed Reality

AI×VR English Study
Six Smart

Enjoy talking with Avatar

CCC Tutors

English Education
for the Future

AI + Humans
VR/AR/MRHybridCOILCollaboration
Interaction

John Dewey (Experiential Learning)

John Dewey once said, "If we teach today
as we taught yesterday , we rob ourchildren of tomorrow." The technology
we have at our fingertips can help us tobecome those memorable teachers oftomorrow.

Conclusions:
Education for the 21st century➢Hybrid and Flipped Learning➢Higher Order Thinking Skills➢Integration /Humans+ AI/VR・COIL➢Collaboration➢Autonomous Learners
SENSE

THOUGHT
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Wise Saying: Einstein
Education is what remains after one has
forgotten everything he learned in school.

How to find out the meaning of life
How to develop your given talents

Mission for Education
Meaning of existence, purpose ofexistence, reason for existence

Clarify the mission of each person
through education. Help them todevelop their gifts.
To make others happy and successful
is the highest happiness and success.

Professor Lennox’s Three Big Questions(1)Where do we come from? How did all things
begin?
(2)What are we here for?
(3)What is the meaning of our existence?

Final comments➢Dominus illuminatio mea.
The Lord is my light.
(Psalms 27:1) University of Oxford➢The fear of the Lord is the beginning ofknowledge. (Proverbs 1:7)
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Acknowledgements:
This work was supported by Soken
Grant (2018~2021), JSPS KAKENHI,Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (C),2019-2022. Grant Number: 19K00798,
Soken Project 2018~2021

Thank you for listening!
Please contact me for more information:obari119@gmail.com

Blessings to you all!
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Philosophy of Science
Ontology & Epistemology
by Professor Rom Harre➢Realm 1: Things we can observe or
perceive with our ordinary senses
Observation➢Realm 2: Things we can observe or
perceive with instrumentsAnalogy➢Realm 3: Things we can’t observe orperceive whatever instruments we use,even including mental, religious, spiritualmatters.
(Natural Science, Humanities, Social Science, and so on.)

Hypothesis “We built Kamiokande in order to
see the invisible.” said Professor
Koshiba.