Exploratory study of the impact of feedback on the PLE

Résumé

A personal learning space (PLE) is a new form of learning that requires communication channels based on information and communications technologies to be used by students in order to  inquiry their tutor during their cognitive process. This research has two purposes: first, to provide students with a learning assistance tool that keeps track of the number of queries,  response time and quality of feedback provided by the tutor and second to conduct an exploratory study with university students to measure the overall impact on the use of  communication tools and teacher - student relationships in the PLE. A case study was conducted with eleven students from last semester of the Master Program in Higher Education of  Universidad Technological Oteima in the Republic of Panama. The results of this study showed that the response time and quality of feedback of the tutor fulfilled student’s expectations.

 Therefore, these strategies are positive to optimize the PLE. However, it is acknowledged by authors that the study sample is limited (n = 11), so it is necessary to extend the sample in other research and collect more data.