Appreciation of ICT Tools in Higher Education in Times of Pandemic

Abstract

The use of technologies in education has been occupying important spaces. In the time of pandemic that was experienced worldwide, these became more important and even essential. In university education, some actors were prepared while others had a hard time adapting to this environment. Some students were attracted to its use, and it helped facilitate their education, while others were not benefited by such attraction. At the Private Technical University of Loja, Ecuador, education is taught both in distance and face-to-face mode. In the case of the latter, students are more attracted to traditional education. This research seeks to determine the relationship between satisfaction with the use of technological resources and satisfaction with the knowledge acquired using technological tools. Students of the face-to-face modality are taken as a sample, in which different ICT tools are incorporated in the teaching and evaluation process. To determine this relationship, non-parametric tests are applied and interpreted for the analysis of correlations and variances. The results obtained show a relationship between satisfaction with the use of technological resources and satisfaction with the knowledge acquired using technological tools.