Teachers‘ and Students‘ Attitudes Towards Blended Learning Effectiveness in Selected Colleges in Shandong Province

Abstract

Blended learning is one of the most important ways of the educational process. Its advantages are due to the fact that it combines traditional and online learning. This study determined the students’ awareness, attitudes, and perspective of course effectiveness factors and the perspective and attitudes of the faculty teaching in the blended environment at the participating school. Generally, the over- all mean is interpreted that teachers integrated technology in their teaching. Overall, there is a significant difference between the attitudes of the teacher and student respondents towards the effectiveness of blended learning classroom environment. The result indicates that teacher and student respondents have different perceptions when it comes to their assessment of effectiveness of blended learning classroom environment. Also, when age is taken as test factor, the data indicates that teacher respondents have different level of assessments in terms of effectiveness of this kind of learning setup when grouped depending on their age. There are three major themes which emerged from the thematic analysis of the interviewees’ responses on the teachers’ observations on the attitudes towards blended learning effectiveness; effectivity of the combination of an online class learning and traditional in-class learning than using one-way delivery of information, blended learning improves learning of new skills and pedagogies, and low-speed internet and connectivity problems causes to reach difficulties with blended learning online resources.