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THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF USING THE BLOGS
THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF USING THE BLOGS

Author(s): Nicoleta Duţă, Elena Cano
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: blogs; digital competence; motivation of students; Higher Education; competencies

Summary/Abstract: This article emphasizes the importance of using the new technologies to of Higher Education. Purpose of the study is to present our experiences about using in schools of education at the universities of Barcelona (Spain) and Bucharest (Romania). There is no doubt that the emergence of technologies in universities has represented a paradigm change in teaching and an important methodology. The two projects observed the improvement of the student motivation with the experience and how the use of blogs can deepen the contents of matter and develop certain skills such as digital competence and reflective capacity. However, experience also enables determine lines of future research to enable precisely what features should of having the blog for achieving improving competencies thoughtful analysis and/or what can be the role of peers to give formative feedback. The use of Information and Communication Technologies in university teaching practice is contemplated as a necessity facing the adaptation to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The implementation of the EHEA has involved great challenges in Higher Education; particularly challenging is a rethinking of teaching methodology, which centers the objective in the process of active learning and of the student continued where technologies have an important role. Technological development and new forms of communication forced to the university institution to reconsider educational practice. The digital technologies of information and communication are having a growing role in university educational processes, demanding setting up new spaces and learning environments and new roles and job roles in teachers.

  • Issue Year: 11/2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 249-257
  • Page Count: 9