Comparing of the effect of Blended and Traditional teaching on Learning

Since blended learning is a combination of the strengths of both traditional and electronic teaching methods, so the main purpose of this research is to compare the effect                of blended and traditional teaching on students´ learning  at Master´s degree in Payame Noor university.

This is an experimental research, by using pretest-posttest and control group based on LMS classroom. The population consisted of all the masters´ students of Shiraz Payame Noor University (PNU) in the first academic year of 2018-2019 (N=30) that were divided into experimental and control group via census sampling method (15 students in each group). Data   were analyzed by T-test and covariance (ANCOVA) through SPSS.

Results indicated a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in pretest and posttest scores at the 0.05 level (F=7.756). In the final evaluation, the results indicated the superiority of the mean score of experimental group (14.0987) in blended teaching to control group in traditional instruction (12.9361).

Blended teaching because of combining the strengths of the two methods of traditional and e-learning, mental imagery, self-regulation and self-motivating learning in students can be more effective on the quality of learning in terms of maintaining and maintaining grades compared to traditional education.