Self-directedness and critical reading skills in a blended learning course: Analysis and challenges
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F46747885%3A24510%2F12%3A%230000975" target="_blank" >RIV/46747885:24510/12:#0000975 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
—
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
—
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Self-directedness and critical reading skills in a blended learning course: Analysis and challenges
Original language description
Blended learning is becoming a commonplace mode of instruction delivery in higher education courses. The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether the design of an online component of the blended learning course coupled with face-to-face instruction, had, in a local context, a positive influence on the students' self-directed learning and consequently on their performance. The study included 105 first-year students of the Bachelor's degree program who registered for the Introduction to StudySkills course, which, among others, was designed to develop the students' critical reading skills in the English language. The main focus of the research was on finding a possible interrelation between patterns in students' online work and the quality of their learning. The research consisted of two consecutive stages of both quantitative and qualitative data collection. First of all, in order to characterize the individual learners' online participation in on-line tasks as well as thei
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AM - Pedagogy and education
OECD FORD branch
—
Result continuities
Project
—
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Proceedengs of the 11th European Conference on on-line learning
ISBN
—
ISSN
2048-8637
e-ISSN
—
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
489-496
Publisher name
Academic Publishing International Limited
Place of publication
Groningen
Event location
Groningen, Netherlands
Event date
Jan 1, 2012
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
321613000059