The Effect of an Offline Class Model for Blended Learning in Low-ability College School Students

Abstract

Blended Learning that offers humane contact is now gaining attention as a measure for gaining actual effect of e-learning that many universities are adopting today. The researcher conducted classes of the Blended Learning format during the first semester of 2006 and the first semester of 2007, targeting students with a low academic achievement level. In particular, the offline class model was adopted for the first semester of 2007. Diverse teaching and learning methods of the offline class model such as lectures, assignments, evaluations and interactions are used to increase the students’ academic achievement rate to 93%, and to decrease the number of students who failed to meet the attendance requirement to 5.9%. By adopting the Blended Learning offline class model, the researcher discovered that the model is effective in securing sustainability of the teaching-learning operation system through interactions between teachers and students, and among students and for obtaining other educational effects.