Elaboración de un MOOC de Magnitudes Vectoriales de Física como refuerzo a las clases presenciales en el Curso de Nivelación de Carrera de Química y Farmacia

Abstract

One of the main challenges of 21st century education is to train professionals with the necessary skills in their area of professional development. In the field of Sciences and Engineering, one of the fundamental pillars is precisely the study of physics, where it is important to emphasize that in a certain way this subject is classified as complex, due to the level of abstraction of the problems proposed and to the reasoning which they deserve. At present, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have revolutionized the way in which the student of today learns, and that is why ICT has become an object of study in the different fields of education. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the academic performance and to measure the satisfaction of students in the Leveling Course of Chemistry and Pharmacy Career with the use of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) developed at MOODLE, which served as an academic reinforcement to the face-to-face classes of Physics. The course covered the Vector Magnitudes unit, which is considered an important basis for further subjects. The study involved 31 students, who were given four tests during the three weeks of work and, in the end, an anonymous survey was conducted with the objective of evaluating the degree of satisfaction of the participants with the pedagogical innovation used in their lessons. As a result, students' grades were improved at the end of the course and an overall satisfaction of 96.41% in the surveys, which allowed us to evaluate the use of a MOOC and how it can help to generate quality learning in an abstract subject such as physics. Thanks to this, it is possible to raise the idea of developing similar innovations in other subjects for future work, in order to collaborate in the creation of a generation of proactive and autonomous students.