APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE TO EFFICIENTLY MANAGE FORMAL AND INFORMALM-LEARNING. A CASE STUDY TO MOTIVATE COMPUTER ENGINEERING STUDENTS

摘要

Recent research is focusing on methods that enable effective consumption of digital content. Students are continually exposed to streamsof digital content. An information system for learning was designed. Such a tool intends to connect learning in formal channels with theability to learn in informal channels. The proposed methodology built upon the application was tested through a quasi-experimentalresearch, implementing and evaluating its influence on how engineering students learnt in an advanced engineering course whereconcepts are complex. The sample is of fifty-eight students enrolled in Computer Engineering at Universidad de Almería. Theirknowledge was evaluated using a specifically designed exam. Results suggest that the effectiveness of the methodology used and thelearning tool itself were both robust and fulfilled the hypothesis. The contrast tests Snedecor F for ANOVA two tail and two-sample Tstudenttest suggested the effectiveness of the learning tool proposed.