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Two years of Blended Synchronous Mode Learning in Higher Education. The Students’ Experience Told Through Their Metaphors

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Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online (HELMeTO 2022)

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Abstract

Both the documents produced by the main international organizations and the thematic scientific literature highlight the impact of distance learning and blended synchronous learning, introduced with the COVID-19 pandemic. Two years later, what seemed to be an exceptional initiative is turning into an educational opportunity for students and teachers, provided that reflection on these impacts and results helps to inform some changes in the teaching-learning act as a “lesson learned”. A qualitative analysis on students’ metaphors and representations of their biennial experience in distance learning and blended synchronous learning in two university courses is here presented. In line with the findings of similar studies, possible hints are given to improve the teaching-learning relationship when distance and blended synchronous mode coexist.

Authorship: 1. Background, 2. Materials and methods, 3. Results, (Salvatore Patera); 4. Discussion (Ezio Del Gottardo); 5. Conclusion (Andrea Tarantino).

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  1. University of International Studies of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Salvatore Patera

  2. University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Ezio Del Gottardo

  3. University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy

    Andrea Tarantino

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  1. National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Educational Technology, Palermo, Italy

    Giovanni Fulantelli

  2. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain

    Daniel Burgos

  3. University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Gabriella Casalino

  4. Unitelma Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

    Marta Cimitile

  5. University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Giosuè Lo Bosco

  6. National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Educational Technology, Palermo, Italy

    Davide Taibi

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Patera, S., Del Gottardo, E., Tarantino, A. (2023). Two years of Blended Synchronous Mode Learning in Higher Education. The Students’ Experience Told Through Their Metaphors. In: Fulantelli, G., Burgos, D., Casalino, G., Cimitile, M., Lo Bosco, G., Taibi, D. (eds) Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online. HELMeTO 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1779. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29800-4_9

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