The Evaluation System for Blending Learning Based on Blackboard Academic Suite

Blending learning becomes popular in Chinese colleges and universities with the rapid using of Internet. Many universities use the BlackBoard Academic Suite( it is abbreviated as BB) to improve the interaction between teachers and students. It is important to evaluate the effect of the blending environment. Thus, the paper made study on assessing blending study based on BB. The paper build a blended learning system based on BB and it build the evaluation system for blending learning. Three indicators and 12 sub-indicators were used to evaluate blending teaching through document analysis and interviewing. Then, 420 questionnaires were distributed to collect opinions about the importance of each indicator, which used linguistic 2-tuple representation model to deal with fuzzy linguistic terms in it. Thus, an evaluation system with weight for blended learning was put forward, which can be used by the manager of university to assess the blending learning environment provided by a teacher.