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Received: 2024-06-14  |  Accepted: 2024-10-14  |  Published: 2024-12-30

Title

The future of university education – is the heyday of blended learning process coming?


Abstract

The aim of the current study is to understand the opinion and attitude of students and university professors about the quality of the learning process of these three forms of education – traditional, online and blended/ hybrid and in general their attitude of using new technologies in learning process of the universities. We conducted an empirical study (n=427) among university pro-fessors (31) and university students (396). Our findings reveal that students and university professors express preference for blended/hybrid type of education, comparing to traditional face-to-face or online education. 47% of respondents prefer blended/ hybrid learning over traditional (41%) or online (12%). Blended/ hybrid learning process receives the largest acceptance for the following advantages: personal attention from the professors; improved communication and flexibility and convenience. At the same time, 66% of respondents are convinced that new technologies have positive (31%) and even very positive (35%) impact on their motivation to learn. This result clearly proves the need for deeper integration of the new technologies in the educational process in universities.


Keywords

blended learning, online education, hybrid education, higher education institutes, digitalization


JEL classifications

I00 , I21 , I23


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1249


DOI


Pages

99-116


Funding

The present article is published with the financial support of the Bulgarian Science Fund, КР-06-Н 45/7 as of 08.12.2020.

This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Stoyanova, Tsvetana
University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria https://www.unwe.bg
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Anguelov, Kiril
Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria https://www.tu-sofia.bg
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

12


Number

2


Issue date

December 2024


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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