Monitoring and supporting students in their learning – Example of a flipped hybrid course

Paper in proceeding, 2023

This paper describes and evaluates an open advanced computational nuclear reactor physics course for students and professionals, offered in a flipped online and hybrid format. The preparatory phase consists of reading a handbook, watching short, pre-recorded lectures, and answering online quizzes. This is followed by a week-long set of synchronous, interactive sessions, during which the students discuss and reflect on various problems/questions and complete several hands-on assignments. Student participation, performance and satisfaction were analyzed. It is demonstrated that, thanks to the course design, high student engagement, performance and satisfaction are achieved. Significant differences in engagement and performance can nevertheless be noticed depending on whether the students participate in the synchronous activities onsite or remotely.