WEB BASED INFORMATION

Challenges and Opportunities in Migrating From a Classroom Situation to a Web Based Multi Modal Classroom

By

[Mariam Titilope Suleiman]

[Science & Technology]

[Anglia Ruskin University]

[May, 2013]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, it would give me great pleasure to show my gratitude to my professor, for his propositions, remarks, understanding and patience. It would also be an honor to express gratitude to my family members for their endless support in my life and allowing me to make all my decisions. I would also like to take the opportunity to show appreciation to my co-workers for their expert cooperation on every occasion. I would also like to be grateful to the Department, managers of the college, instructors and students who have supported me throughout this research.

DECLARATION

I declare that the content presented in this thesis/dissertation is, in my understanding and opinion, original and has not been presented for scholarly assessment in the past, either completely or partly, for an academic degree at this educational institution or elsewhere. I would also like to admit that I have studied and understood the principles, prerequisites, processes and guidelines of the College regarding the higher academic degree research award and to my dissertation. I would also like to declare that I have abided by the College's principles, prerequisites, processes and guidelines.

ABSTRACT

Web based learning environment enables the students to have fast and easy access to education; it is immensely beneficial for the students who are unable to be physically present in a classroom. In situations where comprehensive learner analysis is cost prohibitive, fiscally prudent guidelines for learner analysis that include learner interest and the cultural attribute of language may be feasible alternatives to omitting learner analysis altogether as an online instructional design consideration. This is the reason why the community colleges collect the data of the students during the admission process, the data collection method used by the college includes the COMPASS reading score, such tools are useful in predicting student success in web-based courses. Therefore, learner characteristics such as the COMPASS reading score, learner interest in course topic, and interest in web-based learning were examined to determine their utility as predictors of achievement in an online introductory health care course. In this dissertation the learner interest's scores were measured using the Course Interest Scale and Web Interest Scale developed in 2008 by Nummenmaa and Nummenmaa. The purpose of this dissertation is to enable the education providers to overcome the challenges that are currently present in-front of them regarding the successful implementation of web based instructional technology. This dissertation revealed that using familiar measures such as the COMPASS test score to predict achievement in web-based courses may promote learning outcomes, course completion rates, and graduation rates of the students studying inside the community colleges.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT1

DECLARATION2

ABSTRACT3

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION6

Background6

Statement of the Problem7

Significance of the Research8

Research Questions10

Aims and Objectives10

Nature of the Study11

Assumptions and Limitations of the Research Study11

Structure of the Remaining Dissertation12

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW14

Emergence of Web Based Instructions14

Challenges of WBI16

Implications for Educators Associated with WBI21

WBI for Teaching Adult Learners22

Teaching through WBI24

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY26

Purpose of ...