Innovative Methods to improve the Learning.

Abstract

Innovative methods is a concept that includes those methods in which the multimedia plays an important role. This investigation explores the impact of these innovative methods on the educational environment. Due to the high variety of innovative methods and the impossibility to analyze experimentally all of them, we have focused our research in combined method. Combined mode develops the lecture combining traditional and distance methods. In this way, students have the chance to attend to the class face-to-face or watching the lectures online.

The research was done using a qualitative approach through surveys and interviews conducted with teachers and students. The findings show the level of learning, engagement and the main barriers o using combined mode.

Thanks to the high quality of the new technological equipment installed, the resolution of the video allows students to achieve the same level of learning and understand the new concepts as if they were attending to the classroom.

Engagement is the capacity to involve students in the participation of the lecture and be active components. It facilitates to ask questions typing them in distance help online students in the resolution of doubts, allowing them to solve problems and participate actively in the classroom.

Rather than analyzing the level of learning and engagement, the thesis researches about the main barriers that students have found during the development of online classes by combined mode, proposing solutions to solve the connectivity problem and improve the blackboard visualization.