Análisis en retrospectiva del uso de plataformas de aprendizaje virtual como estrategia para evitar la deserción de los estudiantes de nuevo ingreso en Facultades de Ingeniería

Abstract

Mostly of the engineering schools in the world coincide in having high dropout rates during the first year of their new students, mainly caused by low performance in basic science subjects. Some of these academic institutions counteract this problem with the so-called “zero semester”, with face-to-face preparatory courses or, with some type of tutoring or accompaniment program for the new student; But what happens when these options are not possible to implement in the academic institution? In the Faculty of Engineering of the Autonomous University of Campeche, a leveling strategy was designed, through the implementation of a virtual propedeutic course using the academic content of the online learning platform Khan Academy. This strategy has been applied in the last two school years (2018-2019 and 2019- 2020) This project consists of a retrospective analysis of these two generations and a comparison is made with the 2017- 2018 school year, in which this strategy had not been implemented.