Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mexican universities incorporated technological tools to update the activities of the courses under the distance modality. This quantitative research analyzes the teachers' perception about Collaborative Virtual Walls (CVWs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through data science. The participants are 54 professors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico who completed the International Diploma “Innovation in University Teaching 2021”. The results of machine learning indicate that CVWs and MOOCs positively influence the learning and participation of the students. Likewise, the decision tree technique identifies 4 predictive models about these technological tools. This study recommends the incorporation of ICTs in the educational field because teachers can organize and carry out creative activities under the distance modality. Even universities can include in their strategic planning the incorporation of CVWs and MOOCs in the educational process. The limitations of this research are the sample and analysis about the perception of the teachers in a Mexican university. Therefore, future research can analyze CVWs and MOOCs considering the development of skills and satisfaction of the students in the middle schools, high schools and universities. In conclusion, teachers rely on technological advances such as CVWs and MOOCs to create new school activities under the distance modality and improve the teaching-learning conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights
Today, the planning, organization and updating of the courses with the support of technology have great relevance due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic (Beneria et al, 2020; Bergsman & Chudler, 2021; Chandrasinghe et al, 2020; Colomo-Magaña et al, 2021)
If the teacher considers that Collaborative Virtual Walls (CVWs) facilitate very much the creation of new school activities and has an age > 55.5 years the use of technology facilitates very much the learning of the students
If the teacher considers that CVWs facilitate much the creation of new school activities and has an age > 55.5 years the use of technology facilitates much the learning of the students
Summary
The planning, organization and updating of the courses with the support of technology have great relevance due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic (Beneria et al, 2020; Bergsman & Chudler, 2021; Chandrasinghe et al, 2020; Colomo-Magaña et al, 2021). Teachers design new school activities under the distance modality in order to facilitate the learning process (Daniel, 2020; Guo & Zhang, 2017; Zuo et al, 2021). Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) allow teachers to build new educational spaces where students actively participate, assimilate the knowledge and develop their skills (Birisci & Kul, 2019; Chen et al, 2021; García-Peñalvo et al, 2019; Howlett & Waemusa, 2018). In Mexico, the use of CVWs in the educational field improved the teaching-learning conditions in high schools and universities because the students had an active role before, during and after the face-to-face sessions (Salas-Rueda et al, 2021). Universities in the United States rely on MOOCs to facilitate the assimilation of knowledge and develop the students' skills from anywhere (Moore & Wang, 2021)
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