Online Behaviour of Students in a New Blended Learning Course: An Experience Report

Social Network Analysis, COLLES and ATTLS surveys were applied to study student's behaviour in a new blended learning course. We have carried out a correlation analysis between the student's actual behaviour in the online discussion forums of a new blended learning course and student's responses to survey questionnaires. Based on these methods we were able to investigate the online interactions of professional students who do not get enough time to collaborate with each other on campus. Results of these methods demonstrated that participants were active in both the imposed and non-imposed discussion forums but they took non-imposed more seriously at the end. Additionally, a negative correlation was found between the COLLES tutor support section and SNA out-degree results of students. This experience report is part of an ongoing study of online behaviour of students in a blended learning environment.