IntroductionCurrently China has a variety of English teaching methods and practices.Unhappily,however,manyChinese students’basic English is poor.English courses are overloaded and teachers’tasks are toonumerous to a...IntroductionCurrently China has a variety of English teaching methods and practices.Unhappily,however,manyChinese students’basic English is poor.English courses are overloaded and teachers’tasks are toonumerous to accomplish.Morever in order to fulfill their requirements many teachers have to abandonparts of the syllabus in order to cover all the required material.This‘cover-the lot’approach doesn’tconform to acceptable standards of good English teaching.Consequently,the results are not satisfactory.Although many teachers spend hours of effort preparing and teaching,students seem to retain less andless from their courses,and their interest in English seems to deep gradually decrease.展开更多
E-learning platforms support education systems worldwide, transferring theoretical knowledge as well as soft skills. In the present study high-school pupils’, and adult students’ opinions were evaluated through a mo...E-learning platforms support education systems worldwide, transferring theoretical knowledge as well as soft skills. In the present study high-school pupils’, and adult students’ opinions were evaluated through a modern structured MOODLE interactive course, designed for the needs of the laboratory course “Automotive Systems”. The study concerns Greek secondary vocational education pupils aged 18 and vocational training adult students aged 20 to 50 years. The multistage, equal size simple random cluster sample was used as a sampling method. Pupils and adult students of each cluster completed structured 10-question questionnaires both before and after attending the course. A total of 120 questionnaires were collected. In general, our findings disclosed that the majority of pupils and adult students had significantly improved their knowledge and skills from using MOODLE. They reported strengthening conventional teaching, using the new MOODLE technology. The satisfaction indices improved quite, with the differences in their mean values being statistically significant.展开更多
文摘IntroductionCurrently China has a variety of English teaching methods and practices.Unhappily,however,manyChinese students’basic English is poor.English courses are overloaded and teachers’tasks are toonumerous to accomplish.Morever in order to fulfill their requirements many teachers have to abandonparts of the syllabus in order to cover all the required material.This‘cover-the lot’approach doesn’tconform to acceptable standards of good English teaching.Consequently,the results are not satisfactory.Although many teachers spend hours of effort preparing and teaching,students seem to retain less andless from their courses,and their interest in English seems to deep gradually decrease.
文摘E-learning platforms support education systems worldwide, transferring theoretical knowledge as well as soft skills. In the present study high-school pupils’, and adult students’ opinions were evaluated through a modern structured MOODLE interactive course, designed for the needs of the laboratory course “Automotive Systems”. The study concerns Greek secondary vocational education pupils aged 18 and vocational training adult students aged 20 to 50 years. The multistage, equal size simple random cluster sample was used as a sampling method. Pupils and adult students of each cluster completed structured 10-question questionnaires both before and after attending the course. A total of 120 questionnaires were collected. In general, our findings disclosed that the majority of pupils and adult students had significantly improved their knowledge and skills from using MOODLE. They reported strengthening conventional teaching, using the new MOODLE technology. The satisfaction indices improved quite, with the differences in their mean values being statistically significant.
