Volume Two - Academic Conferences

Eleni Rossiou and Erasmia Papadopoulou
Most of the students stated that the main reason for their willingness to participate is that it is a new
challenge for them to use Information Technology in studying, and 50% of them participated due to
their curiosity. Two of the interviewed students in a relative question said: “let’s not forget that
students of today are part of the high tech generation and have grown up having Internet in their daily
life.” Almost half of the students who have used Google applications and assessed web-based
assignments group justified their participation with the willingness to expand their knowledge, and the
58,3% due to the fact that they didn’t have the opportunity to solve their queries in the traditional face-
to-face limited time teaching. One out of three students joined in the Google Group in order to benefit
a more time and with more quality communication with the teacher. This fact is interesting since
someone in the interviews emphasized the significance of this communication and the expectation to
“have the IT teacher as a chief guide in the new experience trip of exploring this new world of new
technologies”. These latter results are in line with the results of the teacher’s observation sheet, and
both of them confirm different researches that come to the conclusion that new generations prefer to
socialize through Internet or with usage of new technologies.
As far as it concerns the frequency and the duration of the web-based activities, students’ opinions
didn’t change after their experience with blended learning since most of them prefer weekly (52,1%)
or twice per month (27,1%) frequency with less than 2 hours duration (Figure 6).
Figure 6: Students’ opinions about the duration and frequency of the web-based activities
The degree of satisfaction from the educational material is high or above average for more than 50%
of students and more than 80% felt comfortable enough to easily express their questions and solve
their queries (Figure 7).
Figure 7: Students’ opinions about the available educational material and the possibility of solving
queries during the web-based activities.
It is worth mentioning that almost all students consider it important to have the possibility of attending
the activity when at home (Figure 8).
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