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The paper introduces the results of comparative study of the blended learning concept of two higher education institutions – University of Ostrava, Faculty of education and University of Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Informatics and Management, Czech Republic. Having the research sample of 466 and 591 students of both institutions, the data collected within LMSs were processed by the method of frequency analysis, structured according three criteria (learners’ visit rate to the course, learners’ performance in week days and learners’ performance in hours of the day) and compared. In the results different number of assignments was reflected showing higher visit rate to the Technology for education course conducted at University of Ostrava compared to English for specific purposes at University of Hradec Kralove.
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Simonova, I., Kostolanyova, K. (2016). The Blended Learning Concept: Comparative Study of Two Universities. In: Cheung, S., Kwok, Lf., Shang, J., Wang, A., Kwan, R. (eds) Blended Learning: Aligning Theory with Practices . ICBL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9757. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41165-1_27
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