Open AccessLa Gestión Administrativa De Programas De Educación A Distancia Con Mediación Virtual En Universidades De Colombia
Author(s) -
Mercedes Rodríguez Camargo,
Tomás Sola-Martínez,
Eduardo Chaves-Barboza
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2016.v12n34p90
Subject(s) - varimax rotation , likert scale , descriptive statistics , wilcoxon signed rank test , factorial analysis , population , psychology , sociology , statistics , pedagogy , mathematics , demography , cronbach's alpha , curriculum
This paper seeks to analyse the students' perception (population; 1997; sample size: 252) in three Colombian universities regarding the administrative management of the virtual distance-learning programs in which they participate. In order to reach this objective, twelve items with a four-point Likert scale were measured regarding the administrative management. In regard to the data the following tools are used: a descriptive analysis and inferential statistics; the Pearson correlation coefficient; an analysis of variance using Wilcoxon and Kruskal-Wallis tests; and a Kaiser- Meyer-Olkin multivariate factorial analysis with Varimax rotation.The results reveal that the programs have an adequate administrative management in the process of induction, training, extension, and support to the academic work. From the students' perspective, the administrative management is improved if the right technological infrastructure is promoted with the purpose of allowing the access to administrative services and to research.