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

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.

Keywords

• flipped classroom
• emergence remote teaching
• distance flipped classroom
• blended education
• vocational school

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