Students Perceptions on the use of Moodle - Özlem Zengin,English Language Instructor,Bilkent University School of English Language, Ankara/Turkey

1. IRELAND & UK
MOODLEMOOT
2012
Özlem Zengin
English Language Instructor
Bilkent University
School of English Language,
Ankara/Turkey
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012

2. 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?
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3. 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
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4. My Study
• 8 Week courseBlended Learning
• Classrooom Page3 activities
– A Class Dictionary
– Social Forum
– RSS Feed
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5. Class Dictionary
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6. Social Forum
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7. RSS Feed
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8. Findings & Implications
USEFUL MOTIVATING
Qs Disagree ? Agree Disagree ? Agree
Easy 0 0 18
Accessibility
Met 1 2 15
Expectation
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
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9. 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”.
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