Percepción y valoración del alumnado sobre las propuestas blearning en grados de ingenierías industriales y de telecomunicación

This study is included in a research project, which has been developed for 3 years (2013-2015) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Terrassa Engineering School (EET), in order to know the uses and pedagogical conceptions with educational proposals, blended learning mode, hosted on the virtual platform Athena, conceived and designed by Moodle, a system for management courses which is freely distributable. The investigation was applied to 7 degree courses in the field of engineering, currently issued by the EET, including 144 subjects, 192 teachers and 1,559 students. The main purpose of the study presented here was to investigate on the assessment made by the students about the courses included on the digital campus referring to two aspects: the usefulness and the use of some tools and the influence of this technology, which contributes to a better learning of the contents of different subjects. Even though this is part of a mixed methodological design, in order to conclude collecting the processed and analyzed information of this study, it was used the questionnaire which had been previously filled in by students. The results have brought us closer to an intense use of the platform as a documentary resource or content repository, activities and access to other types of information, and to be more independent, learn more and a further customization of the learning process. Virtual communication through tools platform is underused and unidirectional, ruining a basic resource to enhance opportunities for coordination, collaboration and knowledge generation between teachers and students.