The adoption of blended learning to widen access, reduce cost, and improve the quality of education is becoming prevalent in higher education in sub-Saharan Africa and Tanzania in particular. University of Dar es Salaam and the Open University of Tanzania offer various blended learning courses using Moodle system via regional centres scattered across the country. Despite the success of these co...

This study investigates engineering student preferences for blended learning adoption in higher education. No major study to date, however, has taken into consideration the influence of interaction, digital technology, social presence, and internet self-efficacy on student preferences for blended learning approach. This study is based on a sample of 126 students who can use Moodle platform at U...

One of the paths that lead to excellence in teaching in higher education involves training of faculty members in higher education pedagogy. This study gives a summary of individual surveys and hands-on experience acquired through implementation of methodology courses for faculty members. At the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and at other higher education institutions throughout the Czech ...

Corporate education in international organizations faces a lot of challenges which are hoped to be addressed by using blended learning concepts. However, the heterogeneity of an international workforce in terms of culture and learning style opposes this objective. Therefore, this research-in-progress paper focuses on cultural and learning style impacts on learning success when using blended lea...

Blended or hybrid course design is generally considered to involve a combination of online and classroom activities. However defining blended courses solely based on delivery mode suggests there is nothing more to a blended course than where students meet and how they use technology. Ultimately there is a risk that blended courses defined in this way will not utilize effective strategies that h...

Adoption of blended learning is a complex process for higher education institutions and academic staff. Although the move towards blended learning is generally instigated at institutional level, factors determining its success and minimising resistance of faculty often emerge at delivery level. This paper explores adoption of blended learning practices in a Business School at a university in th...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to show my deepest gratitude to Dr. Linda Comer for her mentoring and guidance, and to acknowledge Professor Helen Freeman and Dr. Lorene Putnam for their ongoing support as members of my thesis committee. Thank you also to Helen Freeman for use of the posttest she originally developed for critical care nurses. I would also like to acknowledge Barbara Radford, BSN, ...

The article deals with blended learning in the context of pre-graduate English language teacher education. Firstly, the concept of blended learning is defined, then, the attention is focused on the online component of a blend, namely on the issue of interpersonal interaction including the challenges, which learning through online networking poses. Finally, results of a small–scale research are ...

this study was an attempt to analyze the applications and problems of conducting blended learning (bl) in view point of the agricultural students from bu-ali sina university. the study has employed a surveying methodology with interviewing and included a combination of descriptive and quantitative research methods. statistical population of the study included 500 agricultural students from bu-a...