Students’ E-Learning Domestic Space in Higher Education in the New Normal

Sálvora Feliz, María-Carmen Ricoy, Juan-Andrés Buedo and Tiberio Feliz-Murias
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Sálvora Feliz: Higher Technical School of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avd. Juan de Herrera, 4, 28040 Madrid, Spain
María-Carmen Ricoy: Faculty of Education and Social Work, Universidade de Vigo, Avd. Castelao, s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Juan-Andrés Buedo: Higher Technical School of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avd. Juan de Herrera, 4, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Tiberio Feliz-Murias: Faculty of Education, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, C. de Juan del Rosal, 14, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-15

Abstract: The objective of this study is two-fold. Firstly, to analyse and discover the ability of HE students to use the physical home context for e-learning via ICT during the new normal; and secondly, to ascertain the underlying patterns of the adequacy of such domestic spaces. The authors offer a multidisciplinary approach combining pedagogic, architectural backgrounds with considerable experience in didactics, organization management of education, and ICT applied to education. A qualitative, arts-based research methodology that analyses photographs was used. A total of 220 domestic work environment photographs sent by higher education students were analysed. Results and conclusions show that students are able to attend virtual classrooms in a domestic atmosphere. Bedrooms and studies are usually the most-used spaces. Laptops and smartphones are the most frequent central hubs of student learning sessions. Students use other training resources (desktop computers, tablets, etc.) to supplement the most common digital devices. An intense relationship is observed between Space (bedroom and other rooms) and the Sofa and Beds variables, while a moderate one is observed between Age and Care items. The relationship between other variables is weak or non-existent.

Keywords: higher education; digital technologies; online learning; distributed learning environments; media in education; domestic space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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