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A Case Study on Student's Perspective on Java Applets in Web-based Online Courseware  

Park, HaeOck (Graduate of ChungNam National University)
Choi, WonSik (ChungNam National University)
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대한공업교육학회지 / v.31, no.1, 2006 , pp. 170-184 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine student's perspective on java applets used in web-based online courseware. undergraduate The subject of study was 94 undergraduates and web-based online courseware for the study was made. A suvey was conducted using a questionnaire form right after the semester was over. The results of this study were as follows; 1. 61.7% of the students answered that java applets used in the web-based courseware was very interesting. 2. For the reason why the students had the feeling of liking on the java applets, 33% of the students checked the item "due to the java applets' characteristics of repetition", and 30.9% of the students checked the item "due to the concrete and dynamic explanation on the contents". 3. The majority of the students answered that the java applets helped their learning(71.3%), induced their academic motivation(67%), and felt interactivity while learning(73.4%). 4. 81.9% of the students felt that java applets was necessary and essential contents in the industrial education web-based online courseware.
Keywords
Web-based Instruction(WBI); On-line Education; Java Applets;
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