Students perceptions about the use of Studium as a tool for implementing Blended Learning

ABSTRACT

Advances in the Knowledge Society and the evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have led to great advances in different spheres of action. Regarding the academic, ICTs have enabled important transformations in teaching and learning processes. In the academic year 2021-22, two years after of the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the Spanish Ministry of Universities, and the Crue Spanish Universities, agree to carry out the safe face-to-face format that implies the implementation of blended learning or b-learning or hybrid learning. This article describes the perceptions about the use of Studium as a blended learning tool that 143 Spanish University students. An adapted version of the last section of the Innovative Methodology Assessment instrument by García et al. (2008) is used, which is designed through Google Forms. The results show that the students consider that the use of Studium in the subject has facilitated the acquisition of new knowledge, while it has allowed them to be more autonomous and responsible for their learning and work in an appropriate way. In addition, they state that they feel comfortable with such use. And they also state that it is very likely that, in other countries, they are using said web tool. Despite all the above, they also affirm that the use of this tool in the teaching and learning processes requires a lot of time, and that, in a certain way, it makes it difficult to acquire teamwork skills. Considering these results, the academic implications of using the institutional Moodle, Studium, in the teaching and learning processes of Higher Education to implement the new approach, blended learning, considering gender and the degree. © 2022 IEEE.