Autonomy, Motivation, and Digital Pedagogy Are Key Factors in the Perceptions of Spanish Higher-Education Students toward Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

María Dolores Díaz-Noguera, Carlos Hervás-Gómez, Ana María De la Calle-Cabrera and Eloy López-Meneses
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María Dolores Díaz-Noguera: Department of Didactics and School Organization, Faculty of Education, University of Seville, 41013 Seville, Spain
Carlos Hervás-Gómez: Department of Didactics and School Organization, Faculty of Education, University of Seville, 41013 Seville, Spain
Ana María De la Calle-Cabrera: Department of Language and Literature Teaching, Faculty of Education, University of Seville, 41013 Seville, Spain
Eloy López-Meneses: Department of Education and Social Psychology, Area of School Organization and Didactics, Pablo de Olavide University, 41013 Seville, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 2, 1-14

Abstract: This paper proposes a development model of the adaptation capacity of students to digital transformation in university teaching through three constructs: motivations, digital pedagogy, and student autonomy. For this study, an ad hoc scale was created to record the adaptation capacity of students to digital transformation. The sample was 483 students from the University of Seville (Spain), to whom an online survey was administered during the development of online teaching in the period of November 2020 using the Google Forms platform. The findings of this study showed that university student motivation acquired a greater threshold than autonomy, whose threshold in turn, was greater than that of digital pedagogy in the ability to adapt to online teaching and that the capacity of adaptation to the online modality is explained by the perception that university students have of the usefulness, products, and learning outcomes, among others. In conclusion, the lack of adequate and enabled study spaces is key to developing the online model. We consider all these aspects as prospective research objectives.

Keywords: active pedagogies; motivational factor; higher education; TIC; empowerment; teaching competences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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