Students perceptions on the use of moodle

IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012

IRELAND & UK

MOODLEMOOT

2012

Özlem Zengin English Language Instructor

Bilkent University School of English Language,

Ankara/Turkey


My Study “Students’ Perceptions on the Use of Moodle” Underlying Reason

Research Questions

1. How do students perceive the use of

Moodle in their language learning? 2. Do students perceive Moodle tasks as

useful? If so, in what ways? 3. To what extent do the students perceive

Moodle tasks as useful?


Data Collection

• 18 Students at Elementary Level

• Initial questionnaire to all 18 students

• Initial interview with 3 students

• Final questionnaire to all 18 students

• Final interview with 3 students


My Study

• 8 Week courseBlended Learning

• Classrooom Page3 activities

– A Class Dictionary

– Social Forum

– RSS Feed


Class Dictionary


Social Forum


RSS Feed


Findings & Implications

USEFUL MOTIVATING

Qs Disagree ? Agree Disagree ? Agree

Easy

Accessibility

0 0 18

Met

Expectation

1 2 15

Dictionary 1 2 15 2 6 10

Social Forum 1 6 11 2 6 10

RSS 1 8 9 2 10 6

Moodle Design 0 1 17 0 1 17


Student Comments

• “Moodle was a great tool to help my learning process, it really encouraged me to study English”

• “The class dictionary section was useful when studying for the exam because I could easily find every word we had learned in class”.

• “Social forum was different from class activities and we had a chance to express our ideas in English”.

• “RSS tries to encourage us to read more in English but since the texts were above our level, we had difficulty in understanding them”.

Education

Students perceptions on the use of moodle