Improving Students’ Independence and Collaboration With Blended Learning
- DOI
- 10.2991/amca-18.2018.170How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Independence, collaboration, and blended learning
- Abstract
Now that web-based learning has emerged as a major trend in higher education. Many people have opportunities to develop and enhance independent or collaborative learning through a material which can be supported by technology and online learning. This study was aimed at 1) finding out how Blended Learning was implemented to improve students’ independency and collaboration in listening class, 2) finding out how Blended Learning can improve students’ independency and collaboration, 3) finding out students’ response toward the implementation of Blended Learning in listening class. The subjects of this study are an English lecturer and the second semester students of English Dept. which consists of 28 students who are taking Listening Class. The research designs used are descriptive qualitative and quantitative research. The instruments of this study are observation, interview, and open-ended questionnaire with likert scale. The techniques of data analysis for quantitative research uses a simple percentage and qualitative research is with data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion: drawing or verifying. The result of the research showed that 1) the use of blended learning in teaching listening offered ways for lecturer to be more effective in the teaching and learning process, 2) blended learning was able to improve students’ indepedency and collaboration in listening class, and 3) this study demonstrated the positive response for the students.
- Copyright
- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Erly Wahyuni PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - Improving Students’ Independence and Collaboration With Blended Learning BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 613 EP - 616 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/amca-18.2018.170 DO - 10.2991/amca-18.2018.170 ID - Wahyuni2018/07 ER -