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The virtualization of the Tourism Master's Degree at the University of Huelva during the COVID-19 pandemic was a success and this study analyzed the key factors in this successful virtualization, according to the perception of its students. For this, it was decided to carry out a causal analysis using the methodology of fuzzy cognitive maps and the results achieved glimpsed the role of the teacher in this success. © 2022 IEEE.
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This study points out the factors to be taken into account so that the professors of the Master's Degree in Tourism at the University of Huelva do not stop using online teaching tools in their training process after the COVID-19 pandemic, since some of which can enrich face-to-face teaching. A causal analysis was carried out through fuzzy cognitive maps and the results obtained indicated that if it is intended that these teachers continue using these tools, from the direction of the master's degree they must be allowed to use them and facilitate their use, sending them training courses on these tools, giving them accessibility to this type of tools and allowing them to use them if they require it. © 2022 IEEE.
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With the arrival of the CoVId-19 pandemic, Spanish universities have had to take the step from traditional training to online training, and there are many degrees that have managed to overcome the challenge of virtualizing the training process in an appropriate and without major drawbacks. An example of these degrees is the "Master of Tourism: Management of tourism companies" of the UhU, which was able to complete the first course of this pandemic period online without major inconveniences and planned the next course with only online modality, developing properly and without noticeable problems. for this reason, interviews were conducted with students and professors, and the key factors in the success of online teaching in said degree during the pandemic and the aspects to take into account when wanting to promote the use of online teaching tools were analyzed through the use of fuzzy cognitive maps. The results achieved pointed to their students as the main responsible for the success of this process, a role linked above all to the work of professors to seek that motivation in their students and achieve interactive collaboration. In this way, the attitude and control of technology, the instructor's teaching style, and the creation and structuring of content must be reinforced in professors.
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The virtualization of university teaching in Spain caused by the pandemic was a success, but the urgent nature of the transition from face-to-face teaching to online teaching meant that some peculiarities that should have been taken into account were omitted. Thus, in order to find out and analyze the factors causing the success of this virtualization and take measures to address the weak points of this process as teachers may want to maintain the use of online teaching as support for their face-to-face teaching, these factors were located through a literature review and were classified according to their level of importance in this success through a causal study carried out with the methodology of fuzzy cognitive maps. The results achieved indicated the determining factors in students, involving their attitude, aptitude and predisposition, which are factors where the work of the teacher is of main relevance (as it exerts the greatest influence on these factors). For this reason, technological attitude and aptitude, teaching style, and the creation and structuring of content should be reinforced in teachers.
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Qualifications and training programs must be in line with the skills demanded by the market, since finding a job has become a complicated and competitive process, and this increases the chances of finding it. for this reason, and because of the importance that digital skills have acquired in the tourism sector, the Master in Tourism at the University of Huelva aims to make an analysis of digital skills in its training program, making a comparison between the domain of skills that students have and mastery of skills demanded by the tourism sector. This analysis is developed through a questionnaire made to 21 students in the last year of the master's degree and 10 teachers of the master's degree who belong to the business field of the tourism sector in the province where it is taught, and concludes that in general terms the students of this degree have the general digital skills demanded by the sector and the digital skills necessary to make the process of finding a job as short as possible, which can help the master's degree maintain its high level of employability among its students.
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The methodology of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) is one of the most relevant in the study of knowledge and, probably, one of the most used in recent times by researchers in their studies and projects. This paper analyzes, through a bibliographic review by the main scientific databases, the use of this tool in scientific research and its application in the social sciences, as well as providing historical references in this regard. It shows the main characteristics of the methodology, its possibilities and limitations, its differences with its predecessor (Cognitive Maps), the operational phases for its application and the different ways of capturing information. In addition to demonstrating the suitability of its application in the field of social sciences and studying its major problems, the identification of the concepts involved within the system to be studied, the selection of experts and the coefficients or weights of the knowledge of each of these ones, offering suggestions and contributions for a correct identification of the concepts involved, a correct selection of these experts and a correct quantification of their coefficients of "expert knowledge".