Using the tablet in Distance University learning environment
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https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.20.2.17712Keywords:
distance learning university, student behaviour, m-learning, undergraduate student, tablet.Abstract
Mobile devices, including tablets, have increasingly become a working tool in the academic field, both in face-to-face and distance and/or virtual environments; hence the need to investigate how often students use these devices, what for, what the most common types of interaction are, and if they modify their previous skills, and so forth. The present research focuses on the determination of types of interaction of students using the digital tablet as learning material in distance education with support in a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) through data mining techniques (clustering) using the CRISP-DM methodology. The results show that almost all students use the tablet to manage their basic bibliographic material and 76% only use it to read their books (basic interaction), also only 21% of them use it for other activities related to communication (communicative and social interaction) and a 10 % for activities oriented to producing and sharing content (productive interaction). These results are not directly related to the interaction in the VLE, since those students who use the tablet for communication and content production are not necessarily the ones that have high interaction in the VLE.Downloads
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