Effect of the Online Learning Environment Designed with Instruction Activities Model on Students’ Attitudes of the Online Learning Environment

The general purpose of this study is to investigate the overall effect of the online learning environment which designed according to Gagné’s Instruction Activities Model on students’ attitudes of online learning environment. Pre-test and post-test control group experimental design was used in the study. The study group consists of 61 full attendance sophomore students who were studying in fall semester of the 2016-2017 academic year in the Elementary Mathematics Teaching Department of the Firat University Faculty of Education. Student groups were randomly assigned as experimental (online learning environment platform designed with Gagné’s principles) or control (traditional online learning environment platform) ones. The experimental group was consisted of 31 students and control group was consisted of 30 students. “Web Based Instructional Attitude Scale” which was developed by Erdo？an, Bayram and Deniz (2007) was applied as pre-test and post-test to experiment group and control group students in order to determine student attitudes towards online learning environment. In the analysis of quantitative data, for the statistical evaluation of the data obtained in the comparison of the Experimental Group and the Control Group, Wilcoxon signed rank test, independent groups t-test, dependent groups t-test were used. According to the findings of the study, it was seen that Online Learning Environment Based on Gagné's Teaching Activities Model constituted statistically difference in favor of the Experiment Group on attitude towards the course and although it was not statistically significant in the Online Learning Environment attitude, it was seen that the arithmetic average of the Experimental Group was higher than the Control Group