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As part of the 2030 Agenda, higher education has been conceptualised as one of the ways to overcome the social disparities experienced in rural areas in Colombia. Thus, in concordance with the benefits of this level of education, the state has been designing public policies during the last few years, in order to facilitate access to undergraduate programmes to these populations, focusing mainly on the implementation of the virtual modality. In this context, it is recognised that access itself is not enough, but that continuance and timely graduation are required to materialise the benefits obtained along with a higher education degree; hence, dropout is a subject of interest for study, especially due to the high rates existing in the rural student population. Therefore, the event of dropout becomes an obstacle to social change and transformation in rural areas. Thus, this article aimed to identify which individual, institutional, academic and socio-economic characteristics influence rural student dropout in virtual undergraduate programmes in Colombia. For this purpose, an exploratory, quantitative and cross-sectional study was proposed, with a sample of 291 students to whom a student characterisation instrument and a classroom evaluation instrument were applied. With these data, it was proceeded to establish which of them had deserted, constituting the extraction of the sample of the study, which were 168. With the information, an exploratory factor analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis and descriptive statistics were used to establish which explanatory variables are involved in the dropout of this type of student. The results showed that the academic variables analysed do not have an impact on the event, while marital status (associated with family obligations), age, social stratum, work obligations, parents’ level of education and type of work, income and type of employment relationship of the student, and, finally, the number of people who depend on the family’s income do.
Alfredo Guzmán Rincón; Sandra Barragán; Favio Cala Vitery. Rurality and Dropout in Virtual Higher Education Programmes in Colombia. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4953 .
AMA StyleAlfredo Guzmán Rincón, Sandra Barragán, Favio Cala Vitery. Rurality and Dropout in Virtual Higher Education Programmes in Colombia. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):4953.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlfredo Guzmán Rincón; Sandra Barragán; Favio Cala Vitery. 2021. "Rurality and Dropout in Virtual Higher Education Programmes in Colombia." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 4953.
Sustainable consumption has positioned itself as an alternative for economic growth and social development because of its ability to deal with the future scarcity of natural resources and the prevention and mitigation of climate change, among other things. In this sense, the role of the consumer is preponderant, due to the fact their consumption behaviour has a direct effect on the environment; hence the importance of analysing their habits from different perspectives and social realities. Accordingly, the aim of this work is to explore the low-impact sustainable consumption behaviour in Colombia and the convergence and divergence of this type of consumer behaviour in the country. To achieve this, an exploratory, quantitative, and transversal methodology was used. The latter was based on a sample of 393 consumers to whom a self-report scale was applied in order to evaluate behaviours linked to quality of life, care for the environment, and resources for future generations. With the data collected, the following step to follow was to identify how consumers are grouped (hierarchical cluster analysis), what the differences are (single-factor ANOVA), the behaviours (descriptive statistics), as well as the relationship among them (Pearson correlation statistics). Results show that there are two consumer profiles with different levels of awareness of sustainable consumption behaviour. The principal outcome of the study was that Colombian consumers have embraced the behaviour of quality of life and resources for future generations; however, those consumers related to environmental care have been less involved, especially due to the influence of economic variables as such the cost of products and speculation in the prices of environmentally friendly products.
Alfredo Rincón; Ruby Barbosa; Ester Álamo; Belén Rodríguez-Cánovas. Sustainable Consumption Behaviour in Colombia: An Exploratory Analysis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 802 .
AMA StyleAlfredo Rincón, Ruby Barbosa, Ester Álamo, Belén Rodríguez-Cánovas. Sustainable Consumption Behaviour in Colombia: An Exploratory Analysis. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):802.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlfredo Rincón; Ruby Barbosa; Ester Álamo; Belén Rodríguez-Cánovas. 2021. "Sustainable Consumption Behaviour in Colombia: An Exploratory Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 802.
The incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in higher education has been carried out in a transversal manner within the curriculum, and the processes of formative research in both face-to-face and virtual programmes are not an exception to this process. In this context, it is recognised that students’ perceptions of the inclusion of technologies in the classroom can influence their teaching and learning process; however, they have not been widely addressed in multiple settings including research seedbeds. Thus, this paper aims to identify such perceptions represented in the attitudes, knowledge and uses of ICTs in students ascribed to the research seedbed in a virtual business administration programme of an Institution of Higher Education located in Colombia. For its fulfillment, the ACUTIC scale was applied to a sample of 65 students in order to identify these perceptions through a hierarchical cluster analysis, a single factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) test, a post hoc Tukey method and a factor analysis. The main result is that attitudes, knowledge and use of ICTs are varied and they can be represented in three clusters. In general, the attitude towards the incorporation of technologies in the research seedbed is positive; however, there is a gap in terms of knowledge and use, especially of those tools oriented to the disciplinary field and research.
Magda Martinez-Daza; Alfredo Guzmán Rincón; Jader Castaño Rico; Nuria Segovia-García; Harvey Montilla Buitrago. Multivariate Analysis of Attitudes, Knowledge and Use of ICT in Students Involved in Virtual Research Seedbeds. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education 2021, 11, 33 -49.
AMA StyleMagda Martinez-Daza, Alfredo Guzmán Rincón, Jader Castaño Rico, Nuria Segovia-García, Harvey Montilla Buitrago. Multivariate Analysis of Attitudes, Knowledge and Use of ICT in Students Involved in Virtual Research Seedbeds. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education. 2021; 11 (1):33-49.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMagda Martinez-Daza; Alfredo Guzmán Rincón; Jader Castaño Rico; Nuria Segovia-García; Harvey Montilla Buitrago. 2021. "Multivariate Analysis of Attitudes, Knowledge and Use of ICT in Students Involved in Virtual Research Seedbeds." European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education 11, no. 1: 33-49.
Alfredo Guzmán Rincón; Belén Rodríguez-Cánovas. Disinformation propagation in social networks as a diplomacy strategy: analysis from system dynamics. JANUS.NET e-journal of International Relations 2021, DT, 32 -43.
AMA StyleAlfredo Guzmán Rincón, Belén Rodríguez-Cánovas. Disinformation propagation in social networks as a diplomacy strategy: analysis from system dynamics. JANUS.NET e-journal of International Relations. 2021; DT ():32-43.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlfredo Guzmán Rincón; Belén Rodríguez-Cánovas. 2021. "Disinformation propagation in social networks as a diplomacy strategy: analysis from system dynamics." JANUS.NET e-journal of International Relations DT, no. : 32-43.