How different students perceive e-Learning ? The case of the Antiquit@s ancient history course.

Complete Reference:
Platteaux, H. & Dasen, V. (2004). How different students perceive e-Learning ? The case of the Antiquit@s ancient history course. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New Educational Environments – Neuchâtel September 26th-28th. 6 p.

Key Words:
E-Learning, Ancient history, Higher education, Students’ perception

Abstract:
This paper presents results about the perception students have of a blended learning course in ancient history (Swiss Virtual Campus program). The two successive sessions of the course Antiquit@s, given in Fribourg in 2002-2003 and 2003-2004, are compared in order to evaluate how the different compositions of the two groups of students influenced their perception of an e-Learning pedagogical situation. The adaptation to a blended learning environment should not represent a significant obstacle even for less experienced students. But this group is not convinced that such a situation is offering them efficient learning conditions. The reason for this kind of negative feeling appears as being more linked to active learning process than to the use of ICT.

Complete Document:
http://nte.unifr.ch/IMG/pdf/ICNEE2004_HP_Paper_V20.pdf