Factors that influence the use of the virtual library among students at a university in northeastern Mexico

Objetive. Due to the quarantine of Covid 19, libraries have had to adapt to the virtual modality. For this reason, the purpose of this research is to verify the relationship between the variables: Information available in the virtual library;Informative competences of the librarian;teacher influence;Awareness of the value of information and reading habits with the use of the virtual library. It is important to mention that the study is limited to a quantitative approach. Likewise, the study is aimed at higher education students from an engineering school in northeastern Mexico. Method. A measurement instrument with 26 questions on a Likert scale was used, which meets the reliability and validity characteristics. The instrument was applied to a stratified sample of 386 students. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software, developing a multiple linear regression model. Results. The results show that the variables: information available in the virtual library, the information skills of the librarian, the influence of teacher, awareness of the value of information and reading habits directly influence use of the virtual library. Conclusions. The resulting model provides valuable information on those critical factors that must be taken into account to strengthen the use of virtual libraries in universities by students. Likewise, it is recommended for future research to reanalyze the teacher's influence factor in post-pandemic times, hoping to find a different finding. © 2022 University of Pittsburgh. All rights reserved.

Active Learning Implementation as Digital Education Strategy During the COVID-19

The exponential growth of technology has caused changes in all areas of knowledge, and education has not been an exception. This paper shows the methodology used in a public university in northeastern Mexico for the transformation of the face-to-face modality to the digital modality based on the health contingency of COVID 19. The methodology used for the development of this proposal was design thinking. The suggested technologies are the Microsoft Teams, Forms, and Turnitin platforms, and the proposed teaching strategies are the flipped classroom, active learning, and inquiry-based learning. The proposed methodology consists of 6 steps that are the framing of the course, the exposure to the contents of the subject, the asynchronous seminar-type session for the discussion of the exposed topics, the elaboration of the integrative PIA learning product divided into advances with their respective feedback. synchronous and the dissemination of the products in magazines, congresses, or seminars. The case shows the experience of implementing the digital strategy. © 2022 IMCIC 2022 - 13th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, Proceedings. All rights reserved.