Abstract

MAURY-SINTJAGO, Eduard Antonio et al. Characterization of the use of the MOODLE platform by the health sciences students. Rev EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2015, vol.7, n.1, pp. 4-17. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: technology diversifies the work of the pedagogical processes dominated by the communications and information technologies. Objective: to characterize the use of the MOODLE platform by the health sciences students in Santiago de Chile SEK University. Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in the academic year 2013. The study population comprised 1328 students of the health area and 185 students were included in a non-random purposive sampling. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction. Empirical methods: review of documents and a survey was applied to the students. Results: the checking of e-mails and the participation in the social networks were the most frequent uses of internet by the students of both sexes. There are no meaningful differences about sex in relation to the use of MOODLE. None of them participated in forum. The most used formats of MOODLE were PowerPoint, texts, and videos. There are differences in the actions discharging information and viewing videos according to socio-economic standards. Conclusions: the study carried out allowed stating that a low percentage of students used internet to search information, so the author considers that it is necessary to incentivize teachers and students to use MOODLE for the teacher-student and student-student interaction so as to improve the quality of the teaching process.

Keywords : Internet; education, distance; information technology.

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