New teaching and learning modalities at the University-Analysis of an experience of face-to-face and virtual debates

Abstract

Teachers and members of the research project called "Opportunities and Challenges of Information and Communication Technologies and Virtual Environments for Education and Educating" from the National University of San Luis carried out an experience in the subject Gestión de Recursos Humanos of the undergraduate program Licenciatura en Administración de Empresas.The experience consisted in conducting two debates about Organizational Conflicts, Disciplinary Action and Morals. The participants in the discussion were students of the subject and they were divided into two groups. The first group participated in a face-to-face debate guided by motivating questions, but without the teacher’s intervention. The second group participated in the debate using aforum hosted on Moodle Platform, which contained the same questions used for the face-to-face debate. This work aims at presenting some comments on:

* both experiences taking into account the different modalities (face-to-face and virtual) and the interaction that was generated;

*the degree of connection that the students could establish between theory and local and national realities; an

*·the students’ opinions about the experience.