Virtual platform in the learning process at Bluefields and Nueva Guinea University Campuses

Abstract

The virtual platform is integrated with specialized programs used for teaching and student learning management. Moodle is a Learning Management System (LMS) that manages and distributes activities as a complement to face-to-face training, in a blended learning manner, but it is more exclusively virtual. The research was carried out under the quantitative approach, for the collection of information instruments were applied such as surveys to teachers and students and interviews with authorities of Bluefields and Nueva Guinea campuses of the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast (URACCAN). Students in the area of Economics and Administrative Sciences in the undergraduate programs of Public Accounting and Auditing, Business Administration, Administrative Informatics and Systems Engineering were surveyed, as well as interviews with vice-rectors, academic secretaries, area coordinators, coordinators of Educational Technology, and the director of SITICI (Technological Information and Institutional Communication System). With this information it was possible to analyze the virtual platform’s usefulness and satisfaction as a complement in the learning process, the means, and tools available to develop more interactive subjects; it was possible to describe the factors that intervene according to the characteristics of each campus such as network access problems, few technological pieces of equipment for the use of students and teachers and the possible strategies expressed by users to improve access to the virtual platform in each of the territories. In this work, we contemplate strategies that can be taken up by the authorities of the campuses to improve infrastructure, training for teachers and students, and especially the service offered on weekends in some URACCAN territories