Article: Critical reflections on introducing e-learning within a blended education context Journal: International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) 2019 Vol.11 No.4 pp.413 - 440 Abstract: For three consecutive semesters (2014-2016), we conducted an action research project attempting for the first time to introduce in blended education context an e-course, in the Faculty of Communication and Media of Athens University. The first author constructed the e-course by utilising the open source learning management system - Moodle, the prototype model of digital learning called 'Interactive Evaluation' that was embodied in the design of the e-course and in the cycles of action research. The second author, whose notes and bibliography of the conventional course have been transformed to meet our social constructionist approach to distance learning, acted as critical friend for the research projects. This paper summarises our answers to the following questions: (1) How have we dealt with the 'expressed' interest of students? (2) What were the critical events that occurred during the course and how have we responded to them? (3) What are the factors that affected students' participation in the various modules of the e-course? Our intention is to explore the ways in which the management of the e-courses has come to interconnect with built pedagogy through the implementation of interactive evaluation. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Critical reflections on introducing e-learning within a blended education context

Authors: Dimitris Laskaris; Emmanuel Heretakis; Michail Kalogiannakis; Maria Ampartzaki

Addresses: Department of Preschool Education, Faculty of Education, University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, Greece ' Department of Preschool Education, Faculty of Education, University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, Greece ' Department of Preschool Education, Faculty of Education, University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, Greece ' Department of Preschool Education, Faculty of Education, University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, Greece

Abstract: For three consecutive semesters (2014-2016), we conducted an action research project attempting for the first time to introduce in blended education context an e-course, in the Faculty of Communication and Media of Athens University. The first author constructed the e-course by utilising the open source learning management system - Moodle, the prototype model of digital learning called 'Interactive Evaluation' that was embodied in the design of the e-course and in the cycles of action research. The second author, whose notes and bibliography of the conventional course have been transformed to meet our social constructionist approach to distance learning, acted as critical friend for the research projects. This paper summarises our answers to the following questions: (1) How have we dealt with the 'expressed' interest of students? (2) What were the critical events that occurred during the course and how have we responded to them? (3) What are the factors that affected students' participation in the various modules of the e-course? Our intention is to explore the ways in which the management of the e-courses has come to interconnect with built pedagogy through the implementation of interactive evaluation.

Keywords: action research; assessing e-learning; evaluation methods of digital learning; Moodle; case study; blended education.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2019.102550

International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 2019 Vol.11 No.4, pp.413 - 440

Received: 13 Jun 2018
Accepted: 24 Jul 2018
Published online: 30 Sep 2019 *

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