Traditional Learning

Abstract. The paper presents a way to overcome the shortcomings of traditional learning by enforcing collaboration between students and introducing self-assessment as part of the process of final grade formation. Treating collaboration and self-assessment as two elements of a modern learning process that are very closely bounded together, the authors argue that these elements should by no means replace the traditional (ex-cathedra) way of learning but rather extend it. A specifically designed computer science course is presented as an illustration of how the introduction of self-assessment combined with teacher evaluation can encourage collaboration between students. The benefits and drawbacks of this method are discussed.

The traditional on-campus classroom environments and distance learning have been the issue of debate and research in recent years. This research has also focused on these models. The main purpose of this research was to determine the factors affecting academic satisfaction and also the differences in academic satisfaction between distance learning and traditional learning students in tourism management education at SDU. To reach of the present research, first the literature was consulted to provide a conceptual model. Appropriate to the research model, 5-point Likert type survey has been prepared. Through conducting a face-to-face interview with 110 students of traditional learning program and an online (via internet) interview with 82 students of distance learning program were collected in the academic year of 2014-2015. The data obtained from the students was analysed via the SPSS. For the pre-test, reliability and validity analysis was done. And independent samples t-test was als...

The traditional on-campus classroom environments and distance learning have been the issue of debate and research in recent years. This research has also focused on these models. The main purpose of this research was to determine the factors affecting academic satisfaction and also the differences in academic satisfaction between distance learning and traditional learning students in tourism management education at SDU. To reach of the present research, first the literature was consulted to provide a conceptual model. Appropriate to the research model, 5-point Likert type survey has been prepared. Through conducting a face-to-face interview with 110 students of traditional learning program and an online (via internet) interview with 82 students of distance learning program were collected in the academic year of 2014-2015. The data obtained from the students was analysed via the SPSS. For the pre-test, reliability and validity analysis was done. And independent samples t-test was als...

The traditional on-campus classroom environments and distance learning have been the issue of debate and research in recent years. This research has also focused on these models. The main purpose of this research was to determine the factors affecting academic satisfaction and also the differences in academic satisfaction between distance learning and traditional learning students in tourism management education at SDU. To reach of the present research, first the literature was consulted to provide a conceptual model. Appropriate to the research model, 5-point Likert type survey has been prepared. Through conducting a face-to-face interview with 110 students of traditional learning program and an online (via internet) interview with 82 students of distance learning program were collected in the academic year of 2014-2015. The data obtained from the students was analysed via the SPSS. For the pre-test, reliability and validity analysis was done. And independent samples t-test was also used to determine whether differences in academic satisfaction of two groups. At second stage, structural and convergent validity of the data have revealed with the factor analysis. Then, correlation analysis and regression analysis were used. As a result, the findings demonstrated that the significant relationship between independent variables and academic satisfaction and all hypotheses have been supported.
Keywords: academic satisfaction, traditional learning, distance learning.

Present world is the age of computer science and information technology. Technology enhanced learning is the most promising issue of modern day. Blended learning is learning based on various combinations of classical face to face lectures, learning over the Internet, and learning supported by other technologies, aimed at creating the most efficient learning environment. To enrich the learning capabilities and interesting class lecture, only face to face or online learning is not enough. Although online learning has many apparent advantages, personalization, interactivity, immediate feedback, and online assessment, one of the major problems is poor retention of a high student dropout rate. Specially engineering education is complex for that we have proposed a blended learning approach. According to learning process, we also evaluate the student learning knowledge involving online interaction by automated exam controlling system. We attempt to find out the process to eliminate the traditional teaching and classroom environment and also propose a blended learning approach for our education system. Our proposed idea ensures students are aware of the expected nature and standards of assessable work and students can readily locate and access all resources when needed as well as readily submit material to peers or teaching team. Online website `programmers.org' for Bengali programing tutorials and `automated exam controlling system' website for evaluation of learning have been developed.