Teaching Methods for Successful Learning in University Distance Education

Abstract

The objective of study is to analyze the successful learning strategies to acquire knowledge in the Portal of the Educational Platform (SEDUCA3) of the higher level in distance education belonging to the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM).Non-experimental design of documentary and field type with transversal cut and mixed method (quantitative and qualitative). Applied to 165 students with significant learning in five university careers, covering the areas of administrative economics and biological sciences, because they wanted to observe the different ways of acquiring successful knowledge. To obtain successful teaching standards that will help the designers of educational platforms to standardize and facilitate learning. The results show strategies that lead to academic success, which are: 1) Knowledge of objectives and evaluation criteria, indications of what and for what you will learn. 2) Control of the context, indications of what you are going to learn with; 3) External attributes for learning, exposing how you are going to learn. 4) Social interaction and peer learning skills, directing with whom you will learn. The key facilitates recovery of what has been learned, expressed through elaboration and associated with positive feedback by achievement. This is the generator of the intrinsic motivation required to continue learning. Showing a complete cycle of meaningful learning, where the student has clear the question adverbs "why, where, how, when, how much, where and with whom" he is learning. The contribution of the study is: clear and precise expression of the interrogative adverbs within the educational platforms and avoid masking them with synonyms, because they are keys of significant learning. The designers of educational platforms must include them in order to facilitate and specify the acquisition of knowledge.