A Blended Learning Platform to Improve Teaching-Learning Experience

Author(s):  
Subrata Tikadar ◽  
Samit Bhattacharya ◽  
Venkatesh Tamarapalli
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sithara YJN Fernando ◽  
Faiz MMT Marikar

Evidence for the teaching involves transmission of knowledge, superiority of guided transmission is explained in thecontext of our knowledge, but it is also much more that. In this study we have examined General Sir JohnKotelawala Defence University’s cadet and civilian students’ response to constructivist learning theory andparticipatory teaching methods, especially concepts and knowledge on the learning platform in the DefenceUniversity. Target population of this study represents 41 students. All students were given a questionnaire related toconstructivist learning theory and participatory teaching methods. The claims of constructivist teaching/learningtheory that this paper has singled out are the following: 1) learning is an active experience; 2) the ideas students holdabout the subject and topic being taught will form a part of their learning experience; and 3) learning is socially andculturally rooted. Recent developments in Constructivist Teaching/Learning Theory was explained and brieflydescribed in this paper.


Author(s):  
Xue Shi

Web-based learning environments are being more widely used in higher education to support face to face teaching activities. Universities in Europe, the United States, and other developed countries extensively use e-learning platforms; however, this is still in the trial stage in Chinese universities and educational institutions. Moodle has been considered as an interactive e-learning tool to motivate students and involve them in resolving both individual and collaborative tasks. In order to improve class attendance and homework assignments submission, an e-course was developed via Moodle and proved to be a positive teaching/learning experience. Following this study, a series of conclusions can be drawn concerning its benefits in terms of stimulating students’ interest in homework tasks and increasing their frequency of interaction with teachers and among colleagues.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6236-6239

Blended learning is seen as one of the effective ways of engaging learners in higher educational institutions. The e-learning platforms have further facilitated in adapting to learner centric approach of teaching learning. Analytics have played major role in revolutionizing various sectors including education. Blended learning analytics provides inferences which when utilized effectively by the educator and learner would enhance the teaching-learning experience. Huge amount of varied data is generated when learner and educator interact with e-learning platforms, this when coupled with other demographic information can be used to personalize the learning experience. This necessitates the need of a framework which can capture and use the digital data.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Naveed Akram Ansari

Educational strategies are designed to cope with and fulfill the multifarious pedagogical and educational needs of teachers and learners. Moreover, no educational plan can possibly yield the required results without incorporating suitable instructive strategies. This research paper advocates the role and importance of schemas in learning new forms of knowledge and data in the perspective of class room teaching-learning. Cognitive approach is adopted to understand how students learn new forms of knowledge and experiences through different mental processes, quite unlike that of behaviorism. The concept of schema helps us understand how learners can link new pieces of information to the already existing knowledge in their minds. The notion of ‘Constructivist Approach’ has been extracted from the field of educational psychology for triangulation. Extracts are taken from the textbooks of English used in matriculation and intermediate through purposive sampling. Their analysis shows that schemas can play a vital role in enhancing the learning experience and making new forms of knowledge a permanent part of the memory of students which is the ultimate goal of education.


2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Sancho ◽  
Ricardo Corral ◽  
Teresa Rivas ◽  
María Jesús González ◽  
Andrés Chordi ◽  
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ReCALL ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Eneau ◽  
Christine Develotte

AbstractThis study concerns the development of autonomy in adult learners working on an online learning platform as part of a professional master's degree programme in “French as a Foreign Language”. Our goal was to identify the influence of reflective and collaborative dimensions on the construction of autonomy for online learners in this programme. The material used was 27 self-analysis papers in response to an assignment which asked students to review their distance learning experience (reflective dimension) and to highlight the role of others, if any, in their learning (collaborative dimension). In addition to these two major points, the analysis by category of the body of results shows principally that in qualitative terms, the factors of autonomisation for online learning are interconnected and include: the difficulties related to distance learning and the strategies that learners develop to face those difficulties, the importance of interpersonal relationships in social and emotional terms in overcoming those difficulties, the specific modes of sociability developed for distance learning and the related development of a new type of autonomy that is both individual and collective. The discussion examines the creation, over the course of time, of a new “distance learning culture” that is nonetheless never easy to create and share.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 360
Author(s):  
Kwong Tung Chan

The fast global spread of COVID-19 has resulted in the mass disruption of teaching, learning, as well as assessment, in mainstream schools in Singapore. Teachers were caught unprepared and this jeopardised the quality of classroom delivery and assessment. The Ministry of Education has since shifted to an online asynchronous mode of teaching whilst attempting to keep the face-to-face method of lesson delivery, to which it is called ‘blended learning’ (BL) in the local context. Besides being propelled to learn and use new technology tools for online lessons, teachers also need to quickly explore to embed formative assessment (FA) in the new BL environment to substitute traditional classroom assessment. In this context, I argue that teachers’ language assessment literacy (LAL), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and e-pedagogy are vital to the success of embedding FA in BL. Following, I also describe some tentative predictions for future challenges and opportunities of embedding FA in the BL environment of secondary Chinese Language (CL) teaching in Singapore. On this basis, I discuss the ways in which current conceptualisations of language assessment literacy will need to shift in response to these challenges. Finally, I make some recommendations for practice based on this argument.


Author(s):  
Sona Ahuja ◽  
Diksha Yadav

The present study provides a description of the model of interactive digital pedagogy for remote areas and its impact on pedagogical satisfaction and academic achievement of students. This pedagogical intervention was designed to enrich and supplement the teaching-learning experience in remote and underprivileged schools through the use of technology. An interactive online teaching-learning system was set-up using a digital pedagogy. 150 school students and 80 prospective teachers from three higher secondary schools of Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu participated in the study. Pedagogical satisfaction and academic achievement of the school students who studied in this set-up were examined. The results revealed that active learning, technological competence and learner autonomy were enhanced in an online environment when compared to an offline environment.


1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Rego ◽  
Tiago Moreira ◽  
Francisco José García-Peñalvo

The main aim of the AHKME e-learning platform is to provide a system with adaptive and knowledge management abilities for students and teachers. This system is based on the IMS specifications representing information through metadata, granting semantics to all contents in the platform, giving them meaning. In this platform, metadata is used to satisfy requirements like reusability, interoperability and multipurpose. The system provides authoring tools to define learning methods with adaptive characteristics, and tools to create courses allowing users with different roles, promoting several types of collaborative and group learning. It is also endowed with tools to retrieve, import and evaluate learning objects based on metadata, where students can use quality educational contents fitting their characteristics, and teachers have the possibility of using quality educational contents to structure their courses. The learning objects management and evaluation play an important role in order to get the best results in the teaching/learning process.


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