Mejorando la formación en Dirección de Operaciones: la visión del estudiante y su respuesta ante diferentes metodologías docentes

This paper proposes to improve instruction in Operations Management by taking the student as a reference. The results show the need to make the subjects more understandable and motivating, given the student’s lack of interest in developing professionally in this area. The aim should therefore be for the teaching strategy to act upon these variables. Three educational environments (computer-assisted learning, presential seminar and traditional distance teaching) have been analysed with this goal in mind in order to determine their influence on such variables as motivation, perceived difficulty, understanding of the material and perception of the learning. Said educational environments have been evaluated making use of such aids as factor analysis and variance analysis. We have determined the environments that are best suited to dealing with the problems that instruction in such an important discipline for business administration presents for students.

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