Blend or Flip: An Assessment of Graduate Students' Preferences for Technology-Enabled Learning Initiatives within the Sub-Saharan African Context

Blend or Flip: An Assessment of Graduate Students' Preferences for Technology-Enabled Learning Initiatives within the Sub-Saharan African Context

Stephen Asunka

Recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly wireless broadband Internet access and communicating devices, are offering higher education institutions a greater opportunity to implement several innovative learning initiatives. Two of such technology enabled learning initiatives that have emerged and are spreading rapidly are: i. Blended, or Hybrid Learning - an approach to learning where Internet based, and face-to-face learning activities are integrated in ways to facilitate learning and thus achieve learning objectives, and ii. Flipped Learning - an approach which aims at improving learning outcomes by reversing the traditional teaching setup: students acquire basic content outside of class, and then work together in class on application-oriented activities. Ever since their emergence following widespread adoption of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, a growing number of …

9th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2015)

2015

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