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Access to learning technologies and their impact on medical students' academic performance in times of pandemic

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Sara Elizabeth Bravo Salinas 1*, Angel Morocho-Macas2, Larry Miguel Torres Criollo3 and Johanna Rosali Reyes Reinoso4
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.3.031

Abstract

Information and communication technologies played a fundamental role during the pandemic, because they allowed to advance in the process of teaching-learning. Nevertheless, there are careers in the health area that maintain their opposition to this type of technologies, especially in higher levels previous to graduation, because of the importance of the learning only acquired by the face-to-face learning and the practice. Objective: For that reason, it is important to determine if learning technologies influence in the academic performance of the students of the Medicine Career in the pandemic time. Methods: An analysis to a total of 309 students from second to tenth level was made, to which a survey was applied. Results: the results show that students with internet connection doubled the percentage in the categories ―excellent‖ and ―good‖ in their academic performance to the students that had no access to the described technologies, even if there is no direct relationship between the connection hours and the measured performance of grades. It is also important to highlight that the academic performance of the female students is better than the male students and the living zone or region of the students does not represent a limiting for accessing teaching and learning technologies. Conclusions: The access to communication and information technologies do have a relationship in virtual environments and the academic performance.

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