The Contribution of Blended Learning in Students of the Universidad de Ibagué

Abstract

This chapter encompasses the current situation due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic accelerating students' migration to virtual platforms. Thus, in the chapter, it is proposed to reflect and analyze the role of teachers both leading and belonging research groups at the Universidad de Ibagué, in Colombia, who, in times of pandemic and facing the difficulty of continuing their activities in person, implement methodologies such as b-learning and research in the classroom. To enrich its theoretical meaning and applicability in the Colombian education settings, the chapter restarts as a theoretical basis the Ausubelian perspective from the different contributions. Yet, the present proposal is approached from the qualitative paradigm of descriptive scope and phenomenological design with a hermeneutic approach. The intention is to outline the transformations of the teaching and learning processes, recognizing the notion of students from the nature of the mind and the direct reflection of the beliefs teaching based on and related to loads of history, culture, and learning assumptions.