The purpose of this study was to consider the significance of flipped learning and explore
its implications for instructional design. Flipped learning combines pre-class learning through
self-paced, online lectures outside the classroom with in-class learning through more
complicated activities with the instructor, teaching assistants, or peers. Designing a flipped
learning course requires reflection and proficiency, since it involves redesign of the
traditional learning process. The role of teacher for out-class lecture is to decide which
component of existing lecture content should be assigned to the online or offline session; to
identify the key lecture content that should be delivered online; to link the key lecture
content to the coming offline activities. The role of teacher for in-class activity is to facilitate
essential learning activities face-to-face, which enables synchronous and individualized
interactions between learners and instructor; to arrange a place where the learner’s
difficulties in acquisition and extension of comprehension can be uncovered, and to
encourage targeted learning outcome. Flipped learning as an instructional method requires
teachers to redesign the whole course. This study concludes that the value of the flipped
learning would be maximized when it works as a new flexible mindset for innovating
learning, rather than as a fixed rule of an instructional model.