Abstract:

The paper is conceived and organized into two directions. One direction examines degree of students’ satisfaction with the e-learning resources which they experienced in blended environment, along with their perception of an imagined, or an ideal e-learning system as a supplement to traditional face-to-face learning, they would like to experience in the future. In assessing students’ perceptions, two interviews and a combination of analytic hierarchy process matrixes for ranking major e-learning categories and a simple additive method for the sub-categories analysis, has been employed. Another direction of this research work goes through interviewing a group of experienced instructors in terms how they see actual e-learning dimensions within a blended model and what and how they should be improved according to their opinions. Upon instructors' responses were conducted mostly qualitatively discussions since the interview for instructors was composed in a manner that it contains a palette of diverse questions which would be difficult to subsume under an appropriate quantitative model. These surveys among both students and instructors are realized with an intention to generate the recommendations for e-learning components (re)designing in blended scheme and making them more user-friendly and valuable in the perspective.

Keywords:

e-learning, blended model, users’ satisfaction, users’ expectations.