Face-to-face, online or hybrid?: Perceptions and preferences by higher education teachers and students

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rced.76766
Keywords: face-to-face education, online education, hybrid education, higher education, methodology
Agencies: Trabajo financiado por la Comisión Europea a través del proyecto Erasmus EIPSI-Evidence Informed Practice for School Inclusion con referencia 2020-1-ES01-KA201-082328 y por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España a través del proyecto I D i #LobbyingTeachers. Fundamentos teóricos, estructuras políticas y prácticas sociales de las relaciones público-privadas en materia de profesorado en España con referencia PID2019-104566RA-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.

Abstract

Online and hybrid education have expanded in recent years due, on the one hand, to technical advances and a growing demand from society, and, on the other hand, to the COVID-19 pandemic in which universities had to transform their face-to-face models out of necessity. The objective of our research is to evaluate the perceptions and preferences towards the various types of current education (face-to-face, online and hybrid). For this, a validated quantitative study is provided based on an online survey distributed among teachers and students at the University of Porto, obtaining a total of 684 responses. The results show their perceptions towards certain aspects within the formative process that originate tendencies of preference towards the different types of education. The topics of analysis are discussed with the most recent literature on the implementation in education of the various methodological typologies. The conclusions of the study show a good relative perception of the online education that both groups currently teach or receive, the preference for face-to-face education (teachers) and for face-to-face and hybrid education (students), and the factors that significantly affect their inclinations towards the various types of education.

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Published
2023-01-09
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Pattier, D., & Ferreira, P. D. (2023). Face-to-face, online or hybrid?: Perceptions and preferences by higher education teachers and students. Revista Complutense de Educación, 34(1), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.5209/rced.76766
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Vol. 34 No. 1 (2023)
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