B-Learning and Technology: Enablers for University Education Resilience. An Experience Case under COVID-19 in Spain

Luis M. Sánchez Ruiz, Santiago Moll-López, Jose Antonio Moraño-Fernández and Nuria Llobregat-Gómez
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Luis M. Sánchez Ruiz: Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Santiago Moll-López: Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Jose Antonio Moraño-Fernández: Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Nuria Llobregat-Gómez: Departamento de Lingüistica Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-22

Abstract: Innovative teaching methodologies begat blended learning, which seems to facilitate engineering students’ achievement of competencies required for the 21st century and has proven to be essential to keep quality standards as university education has suffered the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we approach the use of b-learning and digital technologies before the pandemic started, and how it worked like a vaccine, enabling university education resilience and facilitating the sustainability of the students learning process. A questionnaire-based study is presented, in which the data came from Aerospace Engineering students following a Mathematics subject in a Technological University in Spain. ANOVA and ANCOVA analysis provided a significant difference in the appreciation of the adaptation based on the prior application of b-learning methodologies or more traditional methodologies. Results obtained indicated that the use of digital resources and educational platforms caused a noticeable change in the students’ way of learning, improving habits and digital skills.

Keywords: b-learning; educational platform; pandemic resilience; education sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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