- Title
- The effectiveness of brain-compatible blended learning material in the teaching of programming logic
- Creator
- Van Niekerk, Johannes Frederick
- Creator
- Webb, Paul
- Subject
- Blended learning -- South Africa
- Subject
- Learning, Psychology of
- Subject
- Computer-assisted instruction
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/45344
- Identifier
- vital:38572
- Description
- Blended learning is an educational approach which integrates seemingly distinct educational approaches such as face-to-face and online experiences. In a blended learning environment, the classroom lectures can, for example, be augmented with learning material opened in a variety of technologically delivered formats. Brain-compatible learning is an approach to education which stems from a combination of neuroscience and educational psychology. Brain compatible learning is not a formalised education approach or recipe for teachers', instead it provides a `set of principles and a base of knowledge and skills upon which we can make better decisions about the learning process. While the electiveness of education based on brain-compatible learning principles have been proven in a classroom environment, very little knowledge exists regarding its use in an e-learning environment. The purpose of this research was to determine whether an e-learning intervention which was designed according to brain-compatible learning principles would have an elect on student motivation to learn and on student achievement in the subject Technical programming 1. An e-learning based educational intervention which incorporated several brain-compatible learning principles was designed and administered as a controlled experiment intervention. The impact of the research experiment was measured both qualitatively using an purpose-designed instrument and quantitatively through an analysis of the formal assessments for this subject. The findings of this study, namely that brain-compatible learning principles can be used in an e-learning environment and that e-learning material which adheres to brain-compatible education principles have a positive elect on Technical Programming 1 students' achievement and motivation to learn, appear to be meaningful contributions to the current debate on blended learning.
- Format
- 112 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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