Technology strategy to improve university academic performance

Abstract

This paper presents the use of learning objects as a strategy to improve academic performance in courses in the area of software engineering for university students. This study is a mixed and experimental type focused on the relationship between the use of learning objects and approval index. 22 learning objects were designed, developed and evaluated for the subject systems analysis taught in Computer Engineering. Two questionnaires were applied to 38 men and 19 women between the ages of 19-20 from different four-month periods who were studying the subject. It was identified that 36.83% of the students are willing to use learning objects as a new support tool in their learning processes and that the use of this type of materials influences the passing rate of the subject, it is deduced that one cause of this is the diversity of multimedia re-sources used, as well as their access and permanent inter-action. This leads to the assumption that its application in the teaching-learning process appreciably favors the ap-proval index by obtaining a higher group average than the average achieved in similar courses without the use of this type of material.