Learning experimental sciences through ICT in COVID-19 times: students’ perception

In the COVID-19 pandemic, we unexpectedly turned to an emergency remote education [ERE] mediated by ICT. In this context, from the interpretive paradigm, we conducted a descriptive research to report the perceptions about learning of university students of a science career, in a practical subject—Laboratory of Experimental Microbiology—having switched from a face-to-face education to an ERT. With a mixed methodological approach, we designed and validated a survey with closed and open questions that was solved by 56 students. Two analytical axes were used: a contextual one and a conceptual one, for which wecarried out a content analysis, both descriptive-quantitative and comprehensive-qualitative. The results show that more than 50% perceive that the objectives of the subject were not achieved and that they learned less. 80% consider that communication with teachers was good. The predominant conceptual spectrum of the student population is traditionalist. Therefore, we conclude the importance of working with ICTs from a constructivist perspective, within the framework of a “new vision of science”.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6717
• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/13616
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/praxis_saber/article/view/11447; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/13616
• Palabra clave: perception; university student; practical work; ICT; percepción; estudiante universitario; trabajos prácticos; TIC; percepção; estudante universitário; trabalho prático; TIC
• License: Derechos de autor 2020 Maria Del Carmen Urzúa, Diana Patricia Rodríguez