Teachers' Perception about MOOCs and ICT during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Salas-Rueda, Ricardo-Adán; Castañeda-Martínez, Ricardo; Eslava-Cervantes, Ana-Libia; Alvarado-Zamorano, Clara
Titel	Teachers' Perception about MOOCs and ICT during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: Contemporary Educational Technology, 14 (2022) 1, S.343 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Salas-Rueda, Ricardo-Adán) ORCID (Castañeda-Martínez, Ricardo) ORCID (Eslava-Cervantes, Ana-Libia) ORCID (Alvarado-Zamorano, Clara)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1309-517X
Schlagwörter	Teacher Attitudes; Online Courses; Technology Uses in Education; COVID-19; Pandemics; Foreign Countries; Faculty Development; College Instruction; Instructional Innovation; Student Motivation; Student Participation; Academic Achievement; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerverhalten; Online course; Online-Kurs; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Ausland; Hochschullehre; Educational Innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Schulische Motivation; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Schulleistung; Mexiko
Abstract	Technological advances such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) allow the construction of new spaces where students consult the information at any time, take the online exams and communicate with the participants of the educational process from anywhere. This quantitative research analyzes the perception of the teachers about the organization of the school activities in MOOCs and use of ICT considering machine learning and decision tree techniques (data science). The participants are 122 teachers (58 men and 64 women) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico who took the "Innovation in University Teaching 2020" Diploma. The academic degree of these educators is Bachelor (n = 35, 28.69%), Specialty (n = 4, 3.28%), Master (n = 58, 47.54%) and Doctorate (n = 25, 20.49%). The results of machine learning (linear regressions) indicate that the organization of the school activities in MOOCs positively influences the motivation, participation and learning of the students. Data science identifies 3 predictive models about MOOCs and ICT through the decision tree technique. According to the teachers of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the organization of the school activities in MOOCs and use of ICT play a fundamental role during the COVID-19 pandemic. The implications of this research promotes that educators use MOOCs and ICT to improve the educational conditions, create new remote school activities and build new virtual learning spaces. In conclusion, universities with the support of technological tools can improve the teaching-learning process and update the course during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, MOOCs represent a technological alternative to transform the school activities in the 21st century. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Contemporary Educational Technology. Faculty of Communication Sciences, Anadolu University, Yunus Emre Campus, Eskisehir 26470, Turkey. e-mail: editor@cedtech.net; Web site: http://www.cedtech.net
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01