TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of the modality -onsite or online- on the students performance in the MSc in Electrical Engineering
AU - Vicent, Lluís
AU - Badia, David
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work has been partially funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the National Research Agency (PID2020-112584RBC33/MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
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© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Although distance education has centuries of history, online education is barely 25 years old. These modalities were initially used as an alternative or substitute for onsite traditional teaching, and were especially dedicated to those who could not attend a traditional university. This caused many people to consider them second-rate. Currently, a lot of work has been done to improve online training and there are very high quality programs that far exceed the quality of many onsite learning. This paper presents a comparison between onsite and online students of the same degree. This comparison is possible thanks to the fact that the assessment system is the same in both modalities. The results show that it cannot be conclusively affirmed that one modality is better for the development of skills and acquisition of knowledge in a MSc in Electrical Engineering, which supports both study modalities.
AB - Although distance education has centuries of history, online education is barely 25 years old. These modalities were initially used as an alternative or substitute for onsite traditional teaching, and were especially dedicated to those who could not attend a traditional university. This caused many people to consider them second-rate. Currently, a lot of work has been done to improve online training and there are very high quality programs that far exceed the quality of many onsite learning. This paper presents a comparison between onsite and online students of the same degree. This comparison is possible thanks to the fact that the assessment system is the same in both modalities. The results show that it cannot be conclusively affirmed that one modality is better for the development of skills and acquisition of knowledge in a MSc in Electrical Engineering, which supports both study modalities.
KW - comparative education
KW - e-learning
KW - educational evaluation
KW - engineering didactics
KW - online education
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U2 - 10.1109/TAEE54169.2022.9840533
DO - 10.1109/TAEE54169.2022.9840533
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85137114507
T3 - 15th International Conference of Technology, Learning and Teaching of Electronics, TAEE 2022 - Proceedings
BT - 15th International Conference of Technology, Learning and Teaching of Electronics, TAEE 2022 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 15th International Conference of Technology, Learning and Teaching of Electronics, TAEE 2022
Y2 - 29 June 2022 through 1 July 2022
ER -