The student´s practice in b-learning: a systemic observation

Abstract

Nowadays the educational processes are marked by the emergence of technologies in the classrooms. This fact represents an alteration in the learning and teaching methods when mixing the TIC with the presence (face to face), giving room to a mixed modality or the b-learning type, where both teachers and students play diverse roles unlike the traditional/conventional roles. Under these circumstances, this document presents a summary of quantitative/descriptive outcomes obtained in a doctoral research. One of the objectives was to describe the student´s experience from a systemic perspective. This comprehensive approach allowed portraying that experience with the next dimensions: cognitive, attitudinal, learning, technological and communicative. The results show an active student in its learning process, familiarized with technology, having a hard time working with others, interacting more with its classmates but less than with the teacher, its acceptance and taste toward the modality depends on its past experiences and perceptions and also on the teacher´s characteristics and way of teaching. The research was carried out at the Centro Universitario de los Altos de la Universidad de Guadalajara en Jalisco, México