Abstract

OSORIO, Julialba Ángel  and  CASTIBLANCO, Sandra Liliana. Effectiveness of the b-learning model on academic performance and retention in students on distance education. Entramado [online]. 2019, vol.15, n.1, pp.212-223. ISSN 1900-3803.  https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-3803/entramado.1.5406.

In Colombia, the increase in dropouts in Higher Education Institutions justifies the need to evaluate new forms of combined education to reduce the numbers presented. The purpose of the research was to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of blended learning (b-learning), on the variables: average rating, highest frequency rating, dropout and approval percentage, as well as to identify the main problems and causalities that limit the scope of the implementation of the b-learning in a professional academic program, in a distance university in Colombia. The methodology implemented was applied to two modalities of education e-learning and b-learning. The results obtained show that the final rating average of the students was higher in 20.33 points for the enrollment period where it was used the strategy b-learning, It was found that student desertion among the academic sessions of study rose from 12,33 % to 2.81 %; where it appears that the b-learning contributed to improve the retention rate of students. It is therefore concluded that the implementation of b-learning improves both the percentage of approval of the course, as retention student, it is recommended to its implementation in the distance education courses.

Keywords : E-learning; b-learning; academic average; student desertion; percentage of approval.

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