Recovering Educational Research Experiences through Blogs as a Tool for Complementing Activities: (A Case at The Costa Rica Institute of Technology)

Abstract

The aims of this paper are not only to produce knowledge about the use of an educational blog in higher education but also to share this experience during the XIV Latin American Conference on Learning Objects (LACLO) 2019. Consequently, this study shares information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that provide an alternative space, where both professors and students converge on teaching and learning the process at The Costa Rica Institute of Technology, known as TEC. The evidence of this work takes place with learning activities performed with the students at the blog: http//:www.precautionatwork.blogspot.com at this university. The qualitative research interpretive is a tool, which base, is on surveillance of individual visits and a survey to evaluate the students' reactions towards the activities on the blog. The question to answer in this research is to know whether the an educational blog for this study is motivating and encouraging learning tool for the students or not. The general method used in the collection of data is by means of an analysis of the entrance on the blog according to the different activities offered and a survey entitled to acknowledge students' interests in using the blog as a learning tool to improve their learning skills. Finally, a possible way to encounter this problem is by interpreting the data collected from observing students' visits on the blog and the data gathered from a survey as observational methods appropriate for online research.