BACKGROUND Blended behavior change interventions combine therapeutic guidance with online care. This new way of delivering health care is supposed to stimulate patients with chronic somatic disorders in taking an active role in their disease management. However, knowledge about the effectiveness of blended behavior change interventions and how they should be composed is scattered. OBJECTIVE T...

We investigate the technological issues involved in designing an electronic learning system that adapts pedagogical approaches and best practice instructional strategies to model, design and implement a blended virtual learning space. We discuss technology issues that are challenging in the design and implementation of a modular integrated web environment (IWE) used to deliver online network la...

the benefits of using mineral admixtures as a partial replacement of portland cement (pc) are well established in the literature. economic and environmental advantages by reducing co2 emissions are well known. this paper examines the influence of intergrinding and separate grinding on the amount of energy consumption, blaine fineness and particle size distribution (psd) of blended cements, name...

abstractthe present study investigated the effect of blended online and face-to-face instruction on the use of reading strategies by iranian efl learners. out of 100 pre-selected learners, 60 homogeneous participants were identified as intermediate, according to their scores on the oxford placement test. the participants were assigned to experimental (n=30) and control (n=30) groups. then, a pr...

The purposes of this study are to examine faculty involvement in blended instruction and their attitudes towards the instructional method. The study also explored how universities support faculty in their current practices on blended instruction and the challenges in supporting faculty. The target population of this study was Institute of Higher Education (IHE) coordinators and faculty members ...

Thisarticlereviewstheinternationalliteratureonblendedlearninginviewofestablishingitsthematic trendsinhighereducation.ThesystematicreviewthroughPRISMA,soughttoanswerthreeresearch questions:First,howhavepublicationsevolvedfrom2000to2016inblendedlearninginhigher education?Secondly,whatthemesarefrequentlypublishedinblendedlearningsince2000to2...

This paper is a report of a study to examine the influence of demographic, learning involvement and learning performance variables on metacognition of undergraduate nursing students in a blended learning environment. A cross-sectional, correlational survey design was adopted. Ninety-nine students invited to participate in the study were enrolled in a professional nursing ethics course at a publ...

BACKGROUND Nurses are experiencing new ethical issues because of global developments and changes in the healthcare environment. Blended learning is one of the various methods used to deliver meaningful learning experiences. Well-designed, properly administered nursing ethics education is essential for nursing students to visualize the role of professional nurses. However, a literature review sh...

In recent decades, rapid technological innovation has facilitated a convergence between traditional face-toface and distributed (or technology-mediated) learning environments. These blended learning environments try to take advantage of the strengths of both archetypal learning environments (Graham, 2006). The emergence of blended learning is highlighted in higher education and in industry trai...

Blended learning is often associated with student-oriented learning in which students have varying degrees of control over their learning process. However, the current notion of blended learning is often a teacheroriented approach in which the teacher identifies the used learning technologies and thereby offers students a blended teaching course instead of a blended learning course (George-Walk...