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Effectiveness Of Blended Learning For Teaching Inclusive Education To Teacher Training Programme

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  • Rajshree Vaishnav
  • Jyoti Singh

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In 21st century education took a big leap which lead to the paradigm shift of closed model and teacher-centered classroom to an open model and student-centered classroom leading to shift in teaching-learning process from chalk and talk to interactive method. But the importance of teacher in the classroom is inevitable. For this a better solution i.e. to be in the pace with “brick and mortar” schools along with computer-mediated activities which is only possible through blended learning for which many online platforms are used .Moodle has diverse features which can be incorporated as a teaching online tool for blending it with face to face interaction which helps the students to learn in their own unique style and pace. The present study aims to find out the effectiveness of blended learning instruction using Moodle for subject Inclusive Education in terms of achievement when Intelligence and Teaching aptitude are taken as a co-variate. The reaction of the students towards blended learning was also to be recorded. This study was conducted during the second semester in the year 2016-17.Participants were 50 B.Ed. trainees’ selected from RTMNU’s Bar. S.K. Wankhede College of Education , Nagpur M.S. The pre test post test non -equivalent group design was adopted for this study. The control group was taught using traditional method where as experimental group was taught using module developed on moodles. Data analyzed reveals that experimental group achievement score was higher than the control group. There is significant difference in mean scores of achievement in Inclusive Education of experimental and control group, when Intelligence and Teaching Aptitude was taken as covariate. The students also gave positive reaction towards the blended learning module. The result shows that blended learning is more effective than the traditional method of teaching. Key Words:Blended learning, Inclusive Education, Teacher training, Moodle Policy

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  • Rajshree Vaishnav & Jyoti Singh, 2019. "Effectiveness Of Blended Learning For Teaching Inclusive Education To Teacher Training Programme," Working papers 2019-30-01, Voice of Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:vor:issues:2019-30-01
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