Abstract
This study shows the results of an autobiographical questionnaire of Spanish university students regarding two different educational models caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: face-to-face and e-learning. The aim is to discover their perceptions and opinions about their experiences during the learning process and what they have experienced during this global emergency and period of home confinement. The sample is made up of 100 students from the Primary Education Degree programme and the research was carried out through a qualitative study of the questionnaire. The results, divided into categories of each educational model, show the interpretation that the students make of the current reality and their own learning process. The most important aspect of the face-to-face learning model, according to 75% of the students, is direct communication with the teacher, and for 88% of them this model was effective. For the e-learning model, the flexible schedule, the economic savings and explanatory videos are the relevant ideas that the students express, with 68% stating that it was an effective model. The main conclusion is that the students prefer to continue with the face-to-face learning process (49%) rather than online teaching (7%) or, failing that, mixed or blended learning (44%), where the theoretical classes could be online and the practical classes could be face-to-face.
Highlights
The year 2020 will be remembered in the history of humanity as the year of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19
We aim to find out their perceptions and opinions about their experiences during the learning process, what they value from face-toface education and distance education and what they have experienced since the state of alarm was decreed in Spain on 14 March 2020 [2]
The main aim of the present study is to identify the perceptions of university students who have to deal with two different educational models of teaching that they have been confronted with due to the global pandemic, in order to establish guidelines or design an appropriate teaching methodology plan related to teaching and learning practices to be used in the school year
Summary
The year 2020 will be remembered in the history of humanity as the year of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19. The simple daily act of going to class became “staying at home” in front of a computer, with consequent stress and technological fatigue This situation changed our ways of perceiving and seeing education, of how to teach, how to learn and how to evaluate the acquisition of competences and abilities by students. The virtual classroom is conceived as an information space containing the subject’s programme, schedule, different documents for learning and practical classes, meetings, etcetera [10] This represents the basic educational model in the use of virtual classes, planning it as an appendix to the traditional F2FL model, in which the teachers do not change the activities, the type of communication and the teaching methodology. The teacher continues with the usual methodology, but supported with a technological resource [10]
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