Application of Innovative Flipped Classroom Learning on Improving Motivation of Midwifery Students in the Antenatal Care

Background: Weak learning process is one of the problems that in the world of education today. The quality of health personnel graduates is determined by the learner team in the education process, so it is necessary to improve the quality of teaching the midwifery diploma program. Objective: The purpose of this study is to improve the motivation of midwifery diploma program in the subject of antenatal care. Methods: This type of research is quantitative qualitative research with classroom action research design. The population is the second semester students of the Diploma Program of Midwifery. Instrument is motivation questionnaire, field observation, sheet covering lecturer activity, student activity and application of flipped classroom. The results of motivational questionnaires were tested by paired comparative of Wilcoxon test, hypothesis is accepted if p < 0.05. Results: The results showed that there are significant differences between motivation before and after implementation of Flipped Classroom also showed a significant difference with p =.000. Conclusion: Implementation of Flipped Classroom increase attention and confidence of the students on the antenatal care this case it shows students' learning motivation also increases. Increased motivation is expected to improve the achievement of students.