Is a Blended Learning Approach Suitable for Mature, Part-time Finance Students?

The University of Winchester has introduced a new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) based on the Moodle Course Management System (CMS).
Moodle supports a ‘social constructionist pedagogy’ where the style of learning is highly interactive and emphases that learners (and not just teachers) can organize and contribute to the educational experience in many ways. The various functional features of Moodle reflect its design philosophy which is based upon the belief that people learn best when they interact with the learning material, construct new material from their own perspective and interact with other students about the material.
A small investigation has been conducted which has looked at the learning needs of part-time, mature finance students at The University of Winchester to see whether a blended approach (using Moodle) would have benefited their studies. This paper attempts to outline how the course was designed and to do a preliminary analysis of the use of blended learning for part-time, mature finance students. >>>