Social media, a question to be faced: the perception of students on methodological approaches and the principles of connectivism
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1983-4535.2020v13n1p115Abstract
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of methodological approaches in social media about of the principles of connectivism. The study was based on the contributions associated to the technology set for individuals, linked to the relevant role of Higher Education Institutions in the educational process. The research is a survey, delineated by a quantitative approach. In this sense, questionnaires were applied in loco, for the academics of Accounting Sciences Course of the public educational institutions, located in the state of Paraná, with five score obtained in the 2015 exam of Enade. The sample contains a total of 516 respondents. It is considered that the students' perceptions about the approaches made it possible to identify which are the approaches that most raise the perception about the principles of connectivism in the academic environment. In this perspective, even if academics do not have the knowledge of methodological approaches, they are adept at indicating their perception of the habits of the teachers they have already lived with, to demonstrate your conception concerning these habits. The results also showed that the greater the perception of the limitations, the greater the perception about the approaches; traditional, humanistic, cognitive and sociocultural.References
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