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Blended learning, which spreads the edges of online learning to off-line service, has combined the advantages of face-to-face learning and pure online learning and brought vigor to E-learning. The paper is based on the findings of an investigation on college students’ willingness to provide and use off-line functions of an online learning platform. The difference in users are expected to be revealed for offering better category of resources and adaptive functions. To get a clear idea of the influence factors of blended learning and help the design of an individualized online learning platform, the paper will give some analysis about the possibilities and feasibility of blended functions of the platform.
Based on the results of descriptive analysis, Levene test, single factor ANOVA and the crosstab chi-square test, differences appearing in gender and grade need attaching importance to and taking care of. It is proved that learners in universities are willing and competent to take the instructional role to help each other in E-learning. As for how to achieve the blended process in E-learning in higher education, suggestions are offered as to build a location based system(LBS) and an inner-campus communication society on the learning platform. Knowing and accepting the difference, the design of the platform is also optimized to assist learners as well as to improve blended learning experience in the process.
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This work is supported by Research on the Comparison and Promotion Strategy of Educational Informatization between China and Developed Countries (NO. ACA160012) from National Social Science Fund for 13th Five-Year plan key project in Education in 2016. The 13th Five-Year plan key project from the Chinese Society of Education named Research on key issues of promoting the development and application of cloud service in education under Internet plus background (No. 1601060835A) also supported this paper.
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Dai, J., Li, Y. (2018). College Students’ Acceptance and Willingness Towards Blended Learning Experience. In: Cheung, S., Kwok, Lf., Kubota, K., Lee, LK., Tokito, J. (eds) Blended Learning. Enhancing Learning Success. ICBL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10949. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94505-7_9
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