Learning by teaching in a flipped PhD course

Paper in proceeding, 2024

In this paper, we investigate the potential of using learning by teaching to create PhD courses that use flipped classroom teaching. Learning by teaching is a pedagogical approach where students learn the material by teaching it to their peers. Normally, the teacher selects and prepares the material, but we leverage the maturity of our students and ask them to develop the material as well. The course is divided into different modules, and groups of students are responsible for developing and teaching one module each. To help maintain good quality in all modules, the examiner provides detailed guidelines and careful feedback on all material the teaching students develop. Our course survey indicates that both the students and the examiner highly appreciate this course design and that it enables us to develop new high-quality courses without overloading the examiner.