Perception of students about the blended learning in the teaching of the basic engineering sciences. A university case study

Abstract

The present study describes and analyses the perceptions of students of the Faculty of engineering of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in México, about blended learning in the teaching of the basic engineering sciences. The sample was formed by students who attended courses in basic science in a blended program during 2016-2, 2017-1, identifying the profiles of student with more problems to learn and that could fail the course. To collect student perceptions, a questionnaire was designed and applied to 261 students. A frequency analysis to describe their perceptions and a cluster analysis was used to generate an adequate explanation of the responses of the students and associate them with their academic performance. The results show that students considered that the topics of the area of humanities are more suitable for this modality than the area of mathematics.