Operating Systems with Blended Extreme Apprenticeship: What Are Students' Perceptions?
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Extreme apprenticeship, an emerging learning methodology, has been used in a blended fashion for teaching a technical subject: bash scripting for operating systems. Online learning was first supported with the Moodle platform, and then enhanced with playful videos. How did students perceive learning in such a manner? This paper reports on the design of the blended learning experience for operating systems, and then focusses on the evaluation of learners’ perceptions of it.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IxD&A
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014