Course Portal: a Moodle-based LMS supporting blended instruction at a Turkish vocational school¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 2 studies (2 quant-synthesis), q3 · 2 of 2 report an effect size

Description¶

Course Portal is a learning management system developed "by the use of MOODLE version 3.6" to support face-to-face instruction at a Turkish Army NCO vocational school using blended teaching. Teachers shared lectures, presentations, sample projects, learning activities and videos on it, accessible via an intranet; students could log in to take exams and upload homework. Despite instructors' efforts to keep content rich and updated, students were not eager to use the portal as desired, which motivated the acceptance study.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Intranet access via school computer labs, and instructor and technical staff effort to keep content rich and updated

Constraints¶

• Internet access was quite limited at school, so the portal ran on an intranet system

Target Learners¶

• postsecondary vocational school students in business administration and technical programs

Target Learning Goals¶

• accessing course materials, taking exams, uploading homework in blended instruction

Affordances¶

• Utaut Four Constructs Lms Acceptance Framework

Claims¶

• Blended Learning Improves Outcomes [+W]

Related Elements¶

• LMSAS: Learning Management System Acceptance Scale with four UTAUT dimensions

Examples¶

• Furnish LMSs with rich content and provide facilitating conditions to raise student acceptance
• Blended Learning

Key Sources¶

• Ozkan, U. B., Cigdem, H., & Erdogan, T. (2020). Artificial neural network approach to predict LMS acceptance of vocational school students. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE, 21(3), Article 11. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tojde