Background As the Final Report of the Language Education Review highlights, students’ low level of English proficiency seriously affects learning in Hong Kong’s tertiary institutions and hinders students’ potential to fully benefit from English-medium education. This problem is especially serious in self-funded degree programmes, as the students admitted onto these programmes very rarely have s...

Online discussions are an important component of both blended and online courses. This paper examines the varieties of online discussions and the perils, pitfalls and possibilities of this rather new technological tool for enhanced learning. The discussion begins with possible perils and pitfalls inherent in this educational tool and moves to a consideration of the advantages of the varieties o...

This study aims to understand teachers’ perspectives on their roles in higher education, their views about the adoption of a social-constructivist approach to teaching and learning and the integration of online collaborative learning in blended learning environments in higher education from a cross cultural perspective. We interviewed 60 Chinese teachers from Beijing Normal University and Capit...

The digital revolution developing swiftly in the world, it is the trend of the times to use technology in the education. The birth of flipped classroom perfect confirms this point. Under the background of vocational curriculum reform and using technology to improve the quality of secondary vocational education, the blended teaching mode is refreshing and has practical significance. In this pape...

INTRODUCTION Blended learning, a new approach in educational planning, is defined as an applying more than one method, strategy, technique or media in education. Todays, due to the development of infrastructure of Internet networks and the access of most of the students, the Internet can be utilized along with traditional and conventional methods of training. The aim of this study was to compar...

Experience has shown that instructor-led trainings have some advantages that cannot easily be overcome by technology enhanced learning. Direct interaction with an instructor and among the group is often perceived as motivating and more personal. For small groups, in-class trainings can be more cost effective. On-line learning often requires a considerable amount of self-management and progress-...

Purpose Viral hepatitis B and C represent the primary health challenge confronting Asia and Pakistan. With direct-acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C, patients will be treated by general physicians (GPs) and will need training through continuing medical education (CME). Blended learning is a combination of didactic teaching with online, self-paced learning, and it has not been evaluated as...

Blended courses have become the norm in post-secondary education. Universities use large-scale learning management systems to manage class content. Instructors deliver readings, lectures, and office hours online; students use intelligent tutors, web forums, and online submission systems; and classes communicate via web forums. These online tools allow students to form new social networks or bri...

Blended learning is becoming increasingly important in information systems research and education. One major drawback is to foster student’s motivation to actively participate in blended learning environments. There is still little understanding about the perceived value of incentives and components of learning management systems. Therefore, we investigated the perceived value of incentives. Fu...

The growth of e-learning, and subsequently, of blended learning in recent years in response to the global demand for increased productivity in education and training has been astounding! While the commercial response, including that of universities, to this rapid increase in demand and to the associated potential of communications technologies to provide global access has been impressive, signi...