PERCEPCIÓN DEL ESTUDIANTE DE POSTGRADO ACERCA DEL USO DE UN SISTEMA DE GESTIÓN DE APRENDIZAJES COMO APOYO A LA INVESTIGACIÓN.

Abstract

Education, as a complex social process, does not escape from the impact of internet, forcing not only professors to use those internet applications as an instructional resource to facilitate learning at the University Education Sub-system, but also students to take a leading role for self and others knowledge management. This evaluative, field research, carried on the naturalistic-descriptive method had the purpose of knowing about the graduate researcher student’s perception about the usage of a leaning management system as a tool support for their learning process and development of their research competences. The qualitative analysis of the composition of the content of the answers given by eight participants of the Specialization in Teaching in Higher Education program at the José Antonio Páez University, in a Seminar I course on Research and Specialization Work, to a questionnaire of open questions, shows the need to study factors such as the time dedicated to research and attitude towards the use of the telematic resource as support to the process of elaboration of the final degree work. It is concluded that the e-student claims the value and importance of face-to-face contact when it comes to research activities. Since the use of the telematics resource as a facilitation-learning strategy at the UJAP postgraduate education has been promoted and strengthened by the university authorities, and the consequent sensitizing of educational main stakeholders: professors and graduate students, it is recommended to reply this study at all graduate studies programs of this University