A CASE STUDY ON STUDENT SATISFACTION FOR GRADUATES OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ BLENDED MA PROGRAM OF THE HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY, CLASSES OF 2012 AND 2013

This paper addresses the lack of research into satisfaction assessment of post-graduate
students of the Blended Distance Learning Master’s Course for Teachers of German as a
Foreign Language offered by the Hellenic Open University. Through the compilation of
previous questionnaires implemented for other DL programs and newly defined research
problems in one online survey tool, this paper seeks to pin-point the correlation of initial
expectance and final assessment of the blended course. Survey results on a case study
population show that, even though the overall program seems to be appreciated, there
are vast sections of the blended program that do not completely fulfill the expectations
of the students. Furthermore, a need for further investigation and cross-referencing with
respective studies is pointed out.