Blended Learning in Law School at Northern Technical University in Ibarra, Imbabura, Ecuador

Abstract

This article presents the results of a qualitative research, with analytical and interpretive case study methodology, about the impact of the opening of the Law career at the Technical University of the North (UTN) through the blended modality, its consequences from the negative and positive point of view for students, teachers and residents of the community. The aim of the work is to explain the results of the opening of the Law degree at UTN through the blended modality. In the research process, methods, techniques and instruments such as the survey, analysis, synthesis, documentary review and hermeneutics were applied, each with a specific purpose, explained the methodology section. The work includes the challenges that students and teachers have faced for the successful development of the career, in the knowledge of the content of the subjects, the pedagogy, the didactics, the methodology and the technological resources that the teaching-learning process of the subjects contemplated in the study plan. In the text that is submitted to the criteria of the academic community, a comparison of the efficiency indicators of this career is made with the other careers of the Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences (FACAE) of the UTN, whose results show that this was a decision necessary and wise.