Blended Teaching Based on Multiple Teaching and Learning Platforms: A Case Study of Programming Course

New Internet based teaching & learning platforms, which deeply integrate information technology with education technology, are rich in functions and easy to use, and thus are welcomed by front-line teachers. Differences in the respects of realization of teaching philosophy, service object, feature sets, and so on lead to the fact that single teaching & learning platform could hardly meet all the teaching needs of some specific course. To solve this problem, the idea of designing blended teaching mode with the support of multiple teaching & learning platforms is proposed, and a concrete implementation of this idea is given with a programming course as the research case. In this mode, traditional on-site teaching process is refactored with several embedded online learning activities based on more than one teaching & learning platforms. Three types of learner are identified by clustering analysis of learning data generated from online learning activities. Further analysis reveals the style and performance of each type of learner, and thus provides the orientation of continuous improvement in teaching.

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