Online and offline blended teaching for a database principles course

Abstract

The advantages of traditional offline teaching and emerging online teaching in a database principles course were examined to assess the efficacies of online and offline blended teaching. A three-pronged design strategy—theoretical teaching, practical teaching, and diverse assessment methods—was introduced. Further, to improve the theoretical and practical teaching effects, a combination of online resources, such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), Chaoxing platform, QQ group were utilized with student-centered offline teaching. A total of 130 students from the 2020 Software Engineering major Classes 1–4 in Yanshan University participated in the study. The diverse assessment results showed that compared with the traditional offline teaching control class, the teaching effects of the blended teaching were significantly better.