ABSTRACT
The current situation derived from the COVID-19 crisis is generating unprecedented challenges throughout the educational community, although higher education institutions have demonstrated their ability to adapt very quickly and with great flexibility to the crisis. Since the beginning of the pandemic, students are experiencing new learning environments and employing a broad set of resources whose impact on their overall learning has yet to be discovered and is being investigated. There are also many unknowns to solve about how the lockdown has affected them. This research provides new evidences on this unprecedented phenomenon about aspects related to their learning and their effect on confinement in a Graphic Engineering subject through a cross-sectional survey conducted with a students' group (n = 264) during the pandemic period using triangulation of data analysis. A quantitative comparison of the final marks of the students has also been made between the emergency situation and the one before the confinement. The results show a clear and direct relationship between academic performance of the students in pandemic period and variables such as the degree of attention, the time spent on assigned tasks and the conditions of the workspace. The best evaluated training activities are the project and the exercise videos. In general, women are more satisfied with their academic performance and evaluate the practices more positively than men. Although the responses of women have been found to have somewhat more variability than those of men, no meaningful results can be extracted. Final marks and the marks of the autonomous learning competence of the subject increased slightly at the beginning of the pandemic period compared to previous periods, but in the following quarter of confinement the marks were maintained or even decreased with respect to the pre-pandemic period. Finally, the study identifies best practices that will be of value for distance teaching and engineering education beyond the pandemic situation.
ABSTRACT
The survival of Physical Education professionals, as well as companies in the fitness market, faced with adverse external events imposed abruptly by a new reality resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, exposed the fragility of commercial relations with their students/clients, implicating incomes and forcing them to reinvent themselves and adapt to new ways of costumer services. Therefore, this article aims to identify the influence of the value perception, reability and necessity of interaction in the intention of consumption in the fitness market in physicals spaces x virtuals. A survey-type study was carried out with 161 gym students/clients. The statistical technique used for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), through which the conceptual model was tested. The results highlight that perception of consumption in physical stores obtains a positive emotional response to the purchase intention on the part of the costumers, whereas it highly values human interaction, generating feelings of joy, satisfaction and well-being, being so sensitive not only with behavioral price as also to monetary. They indicate a greater perception of quality and confidence in the purchase of services/products in special environments when compared to online sales format, considering necessity of interaction between the student/customer and the Physical Education professional.