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Table 4 McGill institutional analysis—Theme 2

From: Engineering student experience and self-direction in implementations of blended learning: a cross-institutional analysis

McGill Theme 2

and sub-themes

Representative quotations

Resources as an opportunity for growth

s = 8

“I think it's changed the way that I use online resources, and also the way that I interact with my peers… it forces me to go interact with my peers to actually see whether they have similar answers or different answers.” (McGill: Student 4)

Resources allowed students to get ahead and self-direct

s = 8

“I know what I can do. There is material so that I'm never like, "I just don't know how to study." I know how to study, I have material available, I have more material than the other year, I know what I can do.” (McGill: Student 7)

The variety of resources helped students grow as learners

s = 6

“…I would try and find past exams and see what the prof liked to ask, and try to deduce what he's going to ask in the future. Whereas, this [time] I think I'm actually learning the subject material more.” (McGill: Student 8)

Students actively sought out or pursued additional resources

s = 5

“… I'll tend to just Google it and the first ones that come up will be large physics forums where someone's like, "Hey, I don't understand why this works," and you'll get 20 or 30 responses. You get a large variety of it. And then you can pinpoint the differences in everyone's, so it gives you a large amount of different explanations…” (McGill: Student 1)