Students’ perceptions and motivations of a blended course guided by good practice principles and motivation

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Kocaman Karoğlu, Aslıhan

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of learners in the blended course relative to the use of Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. Additionally through the motivational requirements specified by Keller’s ARCS motivational design model, students’ motivations were analyzed. Thus the study was designed to determine student motivation in a blended environment in relation to Keller’s ARCS motivational design model. For these research aims, a traditional course was redesigned with the support of online applications by taking Good Practice Principles as the framework. A triangulation mixed method approach was utilized as the primary design of the study by employing both qualitative and quantitative methods in a single study. The study participants included 47 preservice teachers in an undergraduate teacher education program of Computer Education and Instructional Technology Department in the Middle East Technical University who took the course (School Experience I) in blended design mode in 2005-2006 spring semester. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected through three different surveys, student interviews, and forum transcripts. The data were analyzed concurrently according to both qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques. The analyses of qualitative and quantitative data showed that students’ perceptions in the blended course and perceptions in relation to each good teaching principles were mostly positive. Results reveal that students perceive six of the principles including student faculty contact, cooperation, time on task, diversity and ways of learning, feedback, and active learning helpful to their learning. Additionally, the students think that the other one principle which is expectations needs to be improved. In addition, high motivation scores were gathered in the blended course. Results show that attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction subscores revealed significantly higher levels of motivation among students.

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Higher education., Motivation in education.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610729/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18772

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A. Kocaman Karoğlu, “Students’ perceptions and motivations of a blended course guided by good practice principles and motivation,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2009.