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

Tsvetana Stoyanova () and Kiril Anguelov ()
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Tsvetana Stoyanova: University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria
Kiril Anguelov: Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2024, vol. 12, issue 2, 99-116

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.9770/w4662779545

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