Face-to-face or online? Factors modulating the choice of classroom modality in university students.
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https://doi.org/10.59471/debate202344Keywords:
personalidad, virtualidad, pandemia, estudiantes universitarios, presencialidadAbstract
At the beginning of 2020, the WHO declared a pandemic situation due to the COVID-19. One of the most affected areas was the educational field. With this in mind, a new course delivery had to be implemented, online. After a year or more of the introduction of this new way of learning, this investigation explored the personality factor and what other factors influenced in the choice of instructional delivery of college students’ nowadays, online, face-to-face or blended learning. 314 students’ replied to an online survey through the Google Forms platform and composed of a sociodemographic questionnaire and the AEP. The results obtained didn’t show the existence of an association between the instructional delivery and the 5 factors of personality. Otherwise the age, the working hours and the need of face-to-face practice were the variables with the strongest association with the instructional delivery. This shows that the variability between the course delivery is more related to the sociodemographic variables than to personality.
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