THE PRIMARY STUDENT TEACHERS’ VIEWS ABOUT A BLENDED LEARNING APPLICATION IN A BASIC PHYSICS COURSE

In this study we present an overview of the undergraduate blended Physics course that
has been supported by the Moodle platform. The course that has been applied is a basic
physics course for primary student teachers. The aim of Moodle is to create an online
learning environment which helps students to have a virtual space where they can share
knowledge through different kinds of supervised activities, chats and forums. Students
have to enter Moodle and they have participated activities that have been offered by the
instructor after the lesson every week. After the study, results have shown that teacher
candidates using Moodle processing have positive thoughts about the course. In the
study, it has been emphasized views of prospective primary teachers about MOODLE in
some subjects of physics. Students are challenged to doing research. Prospective
teachers tend to use this method in their professional life; therefore, it is recommend
that offering challenging possibilities to them about their using. It is recommended that
this application is become widespread in education (especially higher education in
Turkey).