Review of student opinions on blended educational implementations in the pandemic process: A case study

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doi:10.31681/jetol.1058283

Abstract

The study has aimed to examine student views and experiences related to distance education, flipped classroom, distance flipped classroom, and face-to-face learning activities carried out over the semester. In this context, student opinions regarding mixed educational experiences in four courses planned and carried out over a semester were examined according to the blended education practices implemented by the Council of Higher Education with the fall semester of 2021-2022. In the research planned as a case study, 42 students who studied in the first year of the vocational school computer programming associate program formed the working group. The opinion survey developed by the researcher was used. Content analysis and descriptive statistics were used in the analysis of the obtained data. As a result of the research, it was found that flipped classrooms and distance flipped classrooms are effective applications in students' learning, and pre-class videos are an important resource for students to come prepared for lessons and repeat the course.

Highlights

With the outbreak and spread of Covid-19, many countries have suspended face-to-face education and immediately switched to the online education model
The online learning carried out in this process is expressed as distance education (DE), it can be considered as a continuation of Emergence Remote Teaching (ERT)
face-to-face normal teaching (FF) and DE processes are combined; Since a learning process involving applications such as Flipped Classroom" (FC) and Distance/Online Flipped Classroom (DFC) have not taken place before, how the effectiveness of the learning activities carried out has come to the fore as an issue that needs to be investigated

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Introduction

With the outbreak and spread of Covid-19, many countries have suspended face-to-face education and immediately switched to the online education model. Turkey has been among the countries that have brought their learning and teaching activities online at all levels of education. A number of developments that came into our lives with Covid-19, especially the closure of schools at the global level and the implementation of strict social distancing measures, have led to rapid changes in traditional forms of education and training (Yılmaz, Karabulut, Uçar, & Uçar, 2021). One of the issues that should be emphasized here is the more intense introduction of innovative educational approaches, which are thought to be an alternative to traditional face-to-face teaching before the outbreak occurs, and even greatly eliminate its limitations. FC, one of the models that the Council of Higher Education (CHE) (2021) has noted and proposed to be used within the framework of the "Global Pandemic Education and Training Processes Guide", started to be discussed on scientific platforms in the 1990s; especially since the early 2000s, when

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