Evaluating a learning management system for blended learning in Greek higher education

Kabassi, Katerina and Dragonas, Ioannis and Ntouzevits, Alexandra and Pomonis, Tzanetos and Papastathopoulos, Giorgos and Vozaitis, Yiannis (2016) Evaluating a learning management system for blended learning in Greek higher education. SpringerPlus, 5.

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the usage of a learning management system in an educational institution for higher education in Greece. More specifically, the paper examines the literature on the use of different learning management systems for blended learning in higher education in Greek Universities and Technological Educational Institutions and reviews the advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, the paper describes the usage of the Open eClass platform in a Technological Educational Institution, TEI of Ionian Islands, and the effort to improve the educational material by organizing it and adding video-lectures. The platform has been evaluated by the students of the TEI of Ionian Islands based on six dimensions: namely student, teacher, course, technology, system design, and environmental dimension. The results of this evaluation revealed that Open eClass has been successfully used for blended learning in the TEI of Ionian Islands. Despite the instructors’ initial worries about students’ lack of participation in their courses if their educational material was made available online and especially in video lectures; blended learning did not reduce physical presence of the students in the classroom. Instead it was only used as a supplementary tool that helps students to study further, watch missed lectures, etc.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: blended learning, e-learning, learning management, LMS, physcial classroom
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Date Deposited: 28 May 2018 07:37
Last Modified: 31 May 2018 02:59
URI: http://lib.e-learning.ph/id/eprint/12

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