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Sitthiworachart, Jirarat, Joy, Mike and Mason, Jon (2021) Blended learning activities in an e-business course. Education Sciences, 11 (12). e763. doi:10.3390/educsci11120763 ISSN 2227-7102.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11120763
Abstract
The objectives of this study were threefold: to understand students’ perceptions of activities in a blended learning environment; to determine their preferred learning activities in this context, paralleling the four stages of Kolb’s learning cycle; and to determine the effectiveness of the blended learning used, based on scores achieved in an e-business course supported by the BLearning assessment system, a custom-designed reflective assessment tool. A mixed-methods approach was used to identify the students’ preferred activities. Findings indicate that (1) blended learning can add interest and variety to improve the students’ learning experience, (2) students prefer blended learning activities that match the first three stages of Kolb’s learning cycle (concrete experience, reflective observation, and abstract conceptualisation), and (3) data collected from the e-business course exam results show that the blended learning process was effective. In aligning teaching activities to student preferences, the notion of “teaching patterns” is introduced as the teaching perspective on these activities. Findings further indicate that blended learning activities based on the first three stages of Kolb’s learning cycle may be more suitable for students who share similar learning preferences.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Blended learning -- Thailand, Electronic commerce -- Study and teaching -- Thailand, Education, Higher -- Evaluation -- Thailand, College students -- Thailand -- Attitudes, Students -- Rating of -- Case studies, Educational evaluation -- Thailand | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Education Sciences | ||||||
Publisher: | MDPI | ||||||
ISSN: | 2227-7102 | ||||||
Official Date: | 26 November 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 11 | ||||||
Number: | 12 | ||||||
Article Number: | e763 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.3390/educsci11120763 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 January 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 January 2022 | ||||||
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