
Perception of the relevance of digital products for the support and monitoring of research projects in virtual students
Vol 4 - No 1 January - June e-ISSN 2745-1194 Pages 80-96
should be achieved"; "they can be shown as facilitating but not guaranteeing"; "more
will should be shown to make such accessibility possible". Regarding adaptability,
arguments such as: "there may be a flexibility that does not necessarily denote
adaptation"; "the number of experiences offered by technology implies a permanent
and rigorous updating that is not always carried out"; "technological flexibility should
address the different exclusion scenarios that are not always addressed in detail".
Another of the aspects investigated focuses the interest on the usability and availability
of technology for the benefit of social and educational inclusion, obtaining a scenario
with a prospective of hope based on the character of intermediation, functionality,
dynamism and multimedia integration presented by technology. With answers that
focus the discourse on: "technology should make possible important changes to
achieve equity in social aspects, but this implies, in turn, a wide challenge both for
those who manage and use the resources, as well as for technological progress itself";
"technology should meet many needs, especially those of inclusion, but resources,
programs and policies should be available to facilitate the use of technology itself".
For this diagnostic and requirements information gathering stage, a questionnaire was
also applied in order to identify the level of acceptance and relevance of generating a
software application for methodological support in the development of research
projects. Acceptability responses were obtained regarding the statements that refer to
the research project as an essential process for the qualification of an education
professional in training, expressing the need to develop competencies in research
methodological foundation, where it requires a personalized accompaniment by a
thematic and methodological advisor who focused on the explanation of phenomena
that occur in the context of the student orients the methodological route that allows
him to identify the reality that will be the subject of research, select the approach,
paradigm, type and design from which the project will be approached.
On the other hand, in the statements referring to the participation of a software as a
mediator in the accompaniment, the interviewees see positively the support of a tool
that in addition to showing the different methodological routes, provides permanent
feedback on the research process that is being developed and that in turn allows the
automation of the feedback process, However, the interviewed population does not
feel a certain fear regarding the academic quality of the products achieved with the
support of the software, but by being embedded and articulated with the LMS where
the training process is developed and the permanent interaction with the advisor is
guaranteed, this risk is minimized and tends to research projects framed in times,
spaces and conditions of quality required at the level of training of the students.