Analyzing the Gap Between Classroom Teaching and Web-Based Teaching Special Reference from Higher National Diploma in Information Technology Programme of Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education

The main aim of this research work is to analyse the gap between traditional classroom teaching and web-based teaching strategies and design and implement an improvedweb-based teaching system to fill the gap. Online degree programmes are growing rapidly and effectively on an international scale, but in Sri Lanka, public and academic interest in the web-based learning and teaching is clearly visiblenowadays. However, students and teachers feel that there is a gap between real classroom teaching and current web-based teaching system used in Sri Lankan educational organizations. In the first phase, thegap is identified from a comprehensive analysis on both methods based on the Higher National Diploma in Information Technology (HNDIT) programme of Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education (SLIATE), Sri Lanka. An improved web-based teaching system, which is a virtual classroom plug-in for the existing Moodle learning management system, is designed in the next phase based on the outcomes of the first phase. In the final phase, the newly constructed web-based system is tested and the statistical results demonstrate the superior performance of our new system.