An analysis of student perceptions and teacher intentions of blended learning in Computer and Instructional Technology Teacher Education Program
Author
Azgur, Mehmet Serhat
Advisor
Alacacı, Cengiz
Date
2011Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
One of the key concerns of teacher education is to facilitate the development of the
teaching talents of pre-service teachers with scaling technologies and pedagogy of
the 21st Century. Teacher educators also need to enhance pre-service teachers’
curriculum by modeling good teaching methods.
This study explored another side of blended learning methods and tried to uncover
students’ perceptions of what their instructors are practicing. Social relations that are
created by blended learning methods are also explored.
Instructors of Computer and Instructional Technology Teacher Education Department
(CTE) and their respective students were participants in the study to investigate the
departmental use of blended learning methods. Total of 44 students and 12 teachers
participated in the study. Only students of preparatory school and freshmen are not
included because of their lack of sufficient number of courses where blended
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learning methods are used. Data collection tools in the research included interviews
and questionnaires aimed to assess students’ perception of blended learning methods
together with the interviews and questionnaires of the instructors of the CTE
Department in order to understand what blended learning methods were practiced.
The data collected from both interviews and questionnaires were analyzed using
qualitative and quantitative techniques.
The findings revealed that although 4th and 5th year students are aware of the
different applications of blended learning and the intentions of teachers who used this
approach, we cannot generalize and say the same for all CTE students. Yet another
finding is that participants thought that Learning Management Systems (LMS)
improve the student-to-student and teacher-to-student relations in instructional
settings. Additionally, the majority of the students think that computer literacy
affects the success of blended learning applications unlike the beliefs of instructors.
Keywords
Blended learningLearning Management Systems
social relations
preservice teachers
teacher education
teaching/learning methods