Online teaching platform-starC and its applications in blended learning

With the rapid development of information technology, blended learning as a worldwide hot topic in the field of education has attracted domestic and foreign researchers' attention including academic organizations, practitioners and education managers. In view of the shortage of the low efficiency in traditional offline learning due to the limitation of time and space, a novel application which contains offline learning and online learning was proposed. In our study, we selected the teaching of software engineering course and used starC as the supporting tool. Through analyzing learning behavior we found that students have higher learning enthusiasm and participation on blended learning than that on traditional offline learning. We can foresee that blended learning has a broad application prospect and huge development potential in the education.