Using Audioblog as a Training Element and a Generator of Learning in the Classroom

Abstract

This study was conducted at the Faculty of Education in Burgos in the 2013-2014 school year and it analyzes the perception of university students on motivation and social relationships in the classroom generated by using audioblog as a training and learning element. In the study, 172 students in 4 subjects of two degrees (Elementary and Children) and the two teachers who teach the subjects are engaged. Two groups, group A (using audioblog) and group B (not using audioblog) are generated. The research methodology has been mixed, using both a quantitative (descriptive and inferential) analysis and a qualitative (interviews) analysis. A pretest-posttest is used, checking how the students’ motivation and social climate in the classroom vary after having taken the subjects. It shows how the students having used audioblog as a training element show improved social climate in the classroom as compared to those who did not use it. The age in group A and prior experience in the use of new technologies (NT) in group B are the variables that differ between groups in relation to learning generated in the subject. Moreover, teachers have a difference of opinion regarding the training use NT can have in the classroom.