What is going on in Slovakia? Current trends and flipped learning

In our contribution, delivered during the FLIPCON Spain 2016 round table session of the invited speakers - distinguished experts and simultaneously ambassadors for the flipped learning from different countries, we provide a more detailed summarization and a story of flipped learning in Slovakia. Our description of the current state is based not only on the development of flipped classroom approach during the last ten years, but we present it in a broader framework of several viewpoints: the Slovak educational system and its general parameters, the well-known OECD’s Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), current global pedagogical trends, the Slovak national curricular reform (2008) and connected national and international educational projects in Slovakia from last years. As one of the main conclusions, we can say that Slovakia is at the beginning of a phase when we need to start with more systematic and focused communication in the Slovak community for flipped learning. The most important thing is to develop stronger collaboration with other countries, getting more experience on how to transform whole schools or even the whole educational system on the basis of flipped learning.