The Facilitating Role of the Teacher in Asynchronous Online Training and Academic Outcomes: An Exploratory Study
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e-learning, higher education, virtual teaching, teaching professionAbstract
The virtual training programs, at the higher education level, have been experiencing continuous growth, providing study opportunities to a group of students who previously had no access to them. One example is the students of professional and technical-professional careers as working adults, a group to which the students of the higher education institution studied belong. Retention rates in this modality are still low and it is necessary to deepen with respect to academic indicators. Online teaching seems to be a key element in the improvement of training processes in this modality. The objective of this research was to identify the relationship between students' perceptions of the facilitating role of the teacher and the academic results of the subjects. It is an exploratory, descriptive and correlational research, with a sample of 31240 students, corresponding to the universe of the institution studied. Data mining and survey study were used as techniques. The multivariate clustering technique, Spearman correlation coefficient and Kruskal-Wallis mean differences were applied for the analysis. It is observed that seven questions show significant differences in relation to the three clusters in which the subjects were grouped, according to high, medium and low academic results. The existence of a relationship between the academic indicators and some key aspects of online teaching such as the incorporation of complementary material, cordiality in the treatment, quality of the answers in a timely manner and detailed feedback is established.
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