A study of final Year Education Studies Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Blended Learning within a Higher Education course

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Brook, Isabelle
Beauchamp, Gary
Date
2015Type
Article
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BESA
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1758-2199
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This paper reports on a study of final Year Education Studies Undergraduate Students’
Perceptions of Blended Learning within a Higher Education course. Blended learning uses a
mixture of online and face-to-face teaching which has the potential to meet the diverse learning
needs of students. An online questionnaire, incorporating closed and open questions, was used
to gain the views of students. Analysis of the data revealed that students viewed aspects of elearning
in a positive light, but also felt that traditional style learning with face-to-face contact
with the lecturer was important in some instances. The data did not uncover any significant
gender differences due to the small sample size, and imbalance of male and female
participants.
Students revealed a positive attitude to ICT in general, and particularly value how it helps them
with the university work. The effectiveness of this can, however, be affected by the level of
lecturer engagement with the relevant technologies. The study reveals that students appreciate
blended learning as it offers the greatest level of choice to them, p
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Educationalfutures;
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Brook, I. and Beauchamp, G. (2015) 'A study of final Year Education Studies Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of Blended Learning within a Higher Education course', Educationalfutures, 7 (1), pp.18-38
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This article has been published online in Educationalfutures (an open access publication), available at: http://educationstudies.org.uk/journal/ef/volume-71-2015/The published version is made available in this repository
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