scholarly journals The Use of Instructional Media in Improving Student’s Skill in Essay Writing Through Blended Learning Platform

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Handoko Handoko ◽  
Dwi Anggreini Waskito Putri ◽  
Antaridha

The research focuses on the use of instructional media in the blended learning platform that to improve students' ability in writing essays. The research is based on the blended learning framework that integrates face -to-face methods and online learning methods. The face-to-face method is given to see students' activeness in delivering ideas and brainstorming before writing essays. The online learning method is used to see students' ability in elaborating ideas in from drafting to become a complete essay. Thus students can be effective in learning in class to discuss their draft and essay and not spend much time writing. The implementation of the blended learning is carried out in three cycles: brainstorming, drafting, and final writing. At the end of each cycle, there is an evaluation to find out the progress of the learning. Feedback is given from the evaluation results to overcome problems that arise in the previous cycle. The subjects of the research are students of Universitas Andalas who di vided as control class and experimental class. The purpose of this study is (a) short-term; To help overcome student problems and improve their ability to write essays in English (b) long-term is to provide a basis for learning models of English writing essays at universities. The pretest indicates that the 59% participants from the control class have a low score (below 60) while in experimental class about 60% participants get a score below 60. It is expected after the implementing of blended learning, there will be a significant improvement of essay score.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Handoko Handoko ◽  
Ayumi Ayumi

The article aims to describe the implementation blended learning environment in teaching writing skills. The research is based on the blended learning framework that integrates face-to-face methods and online learning methods. The face-to-face method is given to see students' activeness in delivering ideas and brainstorming before writing essays. The online learning method is used to see students' ability to elaborate ideas from drafting to become a complete essay. Thus, students can be effective in learning in class to discuss their draft an essay and not spend much time writing. The implementation of blended learning was distributed to three session: brainstorming, drafting, and final writing. The evaluation was done for each cycle. After the evaluation, students get feedback for their performance in the previous session. The result post-test shows that students in the experimental class have indicated a significant improvement in essay writing performance with significance 0,06>0,05 with an average score of 76,35. The result of the research is very important as a framework to develop learning models for teaching writing at universities.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Handoko Handoko ◽  
Rabbi Antaridha

The research focuses on the use of instructional media in the blended learning platform to improve students' ability in writing essays. The implementation of blended learning is carried out in three cycles: brainstorming, drafting, and final writing. At the end of each cycle, there is an evaluation to find out the progress of the learning. Feedback is given from the evaluation results to overcome problems that arise in the previous cycle. The subjects of the research are students of Universitas Andalas who divided as control class and experimental class. The purpose of this study is (a) short-term; To help overcome student problems and improve their ability to write essays in English (b) long-term is to provide a basis for learning models of English writing essays at universities. The pretest indicates that 59% of participants from the control class have a low score (below 60) while in experimental class, about 60% of participants get a score below 60. The result of the research shows significant improvement in essay writing performance with an average score of post-test 76.35. By using the t-test can be seen the significance value of 0.06> 0.05, which indicates that the use of instructional media in the blended learning platform can improve students performance in writing an essay.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kartikasari Tandy Rerung

<p>Nowadays, the communicative teaching has been influenced by the development of technology. Becoming interactive teacher would not be enough if it is not supported by technology usage. Online learning in this case has been a powerful tool to help language learners during their learning progress.  It is said that that online instruction raised the good and average student’s reading performance and the performance of the lowest-performing as well. In listening and speaking, online learning can help students improve their pronunciaton as well the comprehension skill. Therefore, the following study is designed to find out the students’ perceptions towards the use of both online and face-to-face learning in listening and speaking classroom. There are 30 students from the 1<sup>st</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> semester of English Language and Culture Departement and they joined the class for 1 semester. Online learning platform used was taken from Cambridge Learning Management System integrated with Unlock 2 and Unlock 4 books as the source of learning. The result shows that most of the students see online learning as an alternative tool to help them during their learning process.<strong></strong></p><strong>Keywords: </strong>blended learning, online learning, face-to-face learning, language learning


Author(s):  
Alyona Sharunova ◽  
Ahmed Ead ◽  
Christopher Robson ◽  
Misha Afaq ◽  
Pierre Mertiny

With the rapid development of engineering and new demands of contemporary employers, post-secondary institutions have to adapt, improve and enhance engineering curricula to ensure that recent graduates possess appropriate levels of technical and professional skills and multilateral abilities for a successful start in industry. As industrial technologies, tools, and processes evolve, so must teaching methodologies and approaches, which significantly changes the structure of engineering courses. To ensure that students not only master technical knowledge but also develop their professional, interpersonal, cognitive and computer skills, engineering curricula have begun to shift from a classic instruction format to a blended learning format. Blended learning, the strategy of combining regular face-to-face instruction with online learning and/or other out-of-class-activities, is increasingly used in post-secondary education and disciplines and can take different forms depending on the course needs and desired learning outcomes. This paper reviews the recent implementation of blended learning in the form of gamification of a second-year introductory engineering design course using a commercial online learning platform. The reasoning, methodology, process and the results of student surveys before and after the online game are discussed along with suggested improvements.


SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110400
Author(s):  
Brandford Bervell ◽  
Irfan Naufal Umar ◽  
Jeya Amantha Kumar ◽  
Beatrice Asante Somuah ◽  
Valentina Arkorful

The adoption of blended mode of e-learning is dominant basically because of the affordances of the combination of both the benefits of online and face-to-face sessions. In view of this, most traditional distance education institutions have acquired Learning Management System (LMS) for online learning to support the face-to-face aspect of lesson delivery to satisfy the blended mode. This has induced research into the acceptance of blended learning from both tutors’ and students’ perspectives. However, the gap in the literature is that, most of these researches employ instruments that measure only the LMS-based online aspect or the technology of the blended mode leaving the face-to-face aspect relegated. To fill the gap, data were collected from 267 tutors based on a cross-sectional survey design with the questionnaire as the instrument. The result was a development and validation through a partial least squares structural equation modeling of a Blended Learning Acceptance Scale (BLAS) that combines both LMS-based online learning and face-to-face aspects to measure blended learning acceptance in distance higher education.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ratni Purwasih ◽  
Yanuarti Apsari

ABSTRAKPenerapan e-learning merupakan salah satu inovasi teknologi pembelajaran yang mengintegrasikan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi dengan konten pelajaran. Meskipun e-learning bisa digunakan secara mandiri oleh siswa, namun eksistensi guru menjadi sangat berarti sebagai orang dewasa yang berfungsi memberi dukungan dan mendampingi siswa dalam proses pembelajaran. Oleh karena itu, model pembelajaran yang menggabungkan (blending) metode face to face learning dengan e-learning secara integratif dan sistematis akan membuat proses pembelajaran menjadi lebih bermakna. Kejadian virus Corona yang mewabah di Indonesia membuat situasi belajar diarahkan ke online learning.  Akan tetapi faktanya penggunaan teknologi masih sangat minim ditemukan di sekolah. Hal yang sama juga ditemukan di sekolah Mitra. MA Cahaya Harapan merupakan sekolah mitra untuk tempat workshop pengabdian ini, dimana kebanyakan guru belum dengan maksimal memanfaatkan penggunaan ICT ini pada proses pembelajaran di kelas. Tahap-tahapn pengabdian ini meliputi tahap persiapan, pelaksanaan, evaluasi dan pendampingan. Tujuan workshop  pendampingan dan pelatihan ini adalah meningkatkan kemampuan guru-guru  dalam pembelajaran blended learning berbasis LMS Moodle  di era post Covid-19. Peserta dalam PKM ini terdiri dari  25 orang dan dilaksanakan selama tiga hari dan dilanjutkan pendampingan selama dua pekan berturut-turut. Berdasarkan hasil angket kepuasaan sebesar 28% peningkatan kemampuan peserta dari sebelum pelatihan. Seluruh peserta terlihat sangat antusias dalam mengikuti program pelatihan. Hal ini bisa dilihat dari kehadiran seluruh peserta mulai dari awal kegiatan sampai akhir kegiatan. Peserta mampu membuat dan mendesain pembelajaran blended learning berbasis LMS Moodle.Kata Kunci : Blended Learning, LMS Moodle, Post Covid 19  ABSTRACTThe application of e-learning is one of the learning technology innovations that integrate information and communication technology with lesson content. Although e-learning can be used independently by students, the existence of teachers is very meaningful as adults who function to support and assist students in the learning process. Therefore, a learning model that combines (blending) the face to face learning method with e-learning in an integrative and systematic manner will make the learning process more meaningful. The outbreak of the Corona virus in Indonesia has directed the learning situation to online learning. However, the fact is that the use of technology is still very minimal in schools. The same thing was found in the Mitra school. MA Cahaya Harapan is a partner school for this PKM workshop, where most teachers have not maximally utilized the use of ICT in the learning process in the classroom. The stages of this workshop include the stages of preparation, implementation, evaluation and mentoring. The purpose of this mentoring and training workshop is to improve the abilities of teachers in Moodle LMS-based blended learning in the post-Covid-19 era. Participants in this PKM consisted of 25 people and was held for three days and continued with mentoring for two consecutive weeks. Based on the results of the satisfaction questionnaire, there was a 28% increase of the participants ability after joining the training. All participants seemed very enthusiastic in participating the training program. This can be seen from the attendance of all participants from the start of the activity to the end of the activity. Participants are able to create and design Moodle LMS based blended learningKeywords: Blended Learning, LMS Moodle, Post Covid 19


2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emine Cabı ◽  
Yasemin Gülbahar

This study is conducted to develop a scale for assessing the effectiveness of blended learning environments based on the features of both face-to-face and online learning environments and provide suggestions for stakeholders. In the process of scale development, data gathered from 314 students were analyzed. The reliability and validity results for collected data were found to be acceptable since they were between or above the expected value. Based on the analysis it is found that the scale is composed of 55 items having a structure of 4 factors. Hence, it can be concluded that "Effectiveness of Blended Learning Environments Scale" is found as reliable and valid, and can measure what it aims to measure. Blended Learning Environment Scale, which was developed and analyzed for reliability and validity throughout this study, is expected to facilitate the further research studies that focused on blended learning environments.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Muhammad Makki ◽  
Dyah Indraswati ◽  
Muhammad Erfan ◽  
Aisa Nikmah Rahmatih ◽  
Vivi Rachmatul Hidayati

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to policies that make teachers and students have to adapt the face-to-face learning model to online learning. The teacher of SD N 2 Cakranegara admits that there are limitations to the variety of audio-visual learning media used. The teachers also don't know and have never tried to develop game games with learning content, even though Android-based games are very possible to be developed and accessed portable on smartphones, the majority of which are already owned by teachers and students. The provision of workshops and assistance in making Android-based educational games for SD N 2 Cakranegara teachers aims to improve skills in creating and developing learning media in the form of educational games and maximizing the use of smartphones. The targeted output in this service activity is the existence of educational games that are ready to be used for the online learning process through appsgeyser.com and quickappninja.com.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Yasdinul Huda ◽  
Delsina Faiza

The research aims to provide broad access to education for people in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 through various higher education institutions that actively participate using the Blended Learning model. The long-term goal of this research is to develop innovative and flexible learning models based on Smart Classroom. System design in this study was developed to realize a balance between virtual teaching (virtual class) and face-to-face (physical class) that takes place at the same time using the Live Video Webcasting service. The research method uses a quantitative approach and the type of research is R & D adopting the Thiagarajan 4D development model. This research produces a Smart Classroom system based on Streaming Webcast through several stages, namely: (1) System Design, (2) System Creation, (3) System Testing. This developed system allows interaction in learning in the physical class as well as teaching in a virtual class remotely.Keywords: Revolusi Industri 4.0, Blended Learning, Smart Classroom, Live Video Webcasting.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ridho Rojabi ◽  

Online learning that is integrated into face-to-face learning called blended learning is believed to be more useful than online learning or face-to-face learning. Schoology is one of the online learning platforms exploited in blended learning that can help teachers to manage classroom information. Schoology allows students and teachers to share information and provides access to content or administrative features of specific courses. This study aims to investigate students' perceptions of blended learning via Schoology in reading class. This is a descriptive study, the participants of this study consisted of 28- second-semester students at the English Language Study Program, Faculty of Tarbiyah, and teacher training IAIN Jember, East Java Indonesia. The Data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. The findings of this study revealed that there were positive perceptions of blended learning via Schoology in the reading comprehension class as well as the positive learners’ attitude. Furthermore, the students agreed that Schoology in blended learning in the reading comprehension class is useful, helpful, and effective. Moreover, from the results of the interviews, there were positive aspects of blended learning via Schoology in reading comprehension which gave more benefits to engage and motivate students’ learning activities, students’ performances, learners’ autonomy, as well as students’ learning outcomes.


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