An Evaluation of Different Types of Blended Learning Activities in Higher Education

Abstract

Blended learning has provided benefits to higher education. Therefore, universities tend to introduce blended learning activities to improve their teaching-learning practices. There are different types of blended learning activities such as forum based discussions, online games, and assignments. In order to investigates students' satisfaction towards different types of blended learning activities and their usefulness for students to score well in examinations, an action research was conducted over a period of three years from 2015-2017. The results of the study informed that students preferred to engage with activities that started in classroom and continued online. Also, students found online discussion were less useful than the other types of blended learning activities. Based on the finding of the research paper discusses how blended learning activities should be designed to make them more useful and effective.