Bimodal teaching in times of pandemic. Interim solution and challenge for the future in higher education
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This research focuses on the communication lecturers´experiences about bimodal education in the University of the Basque Country. This teaching strategy aims to reduce the flow of students in classrooms, while ensuring the supply of face-to-face classes. Half of the people enrolled connect to class from their homes, while the other half attend the classroom in person. These shifts alternate weekly. The objective of the study is to analyze the difficulties, errors and successes in adapting teaching to the context of bimodal teaching. A qualitative methodology has been chosen, divided into two phases of action. In the first place, a Focus Group was carried out with teachers of the three communication degrees and later a survey was made that was sent by those who teach their classes in a bimodal way. This type of teaching aims to be a hybrid between the face-to-face and the virtual strategy, and to obtain the benefits of both. However, maintaining the two focuses of attention and meeting the needs that arise in both contexts is a difficult challenge. There is a high degree of concern for issues related to the adaptation of subjects to this type of teaching, and mainly, for the loss of interaction with students.
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Terese Mendiguren Galdospin, Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Terese Mendiguren. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She holds a PhD in Journalism from the UPV/EHU. She is Vice Dean of Communication and Social Projection, and Associate Professor at the same University. She has teaching experience in both undergraduate and two official master's degrees: Master's Degree in Multimedia Journalism - El Correo and Master's Degree in Multimedia Communication - EITB. He dedicated his doctoral thesis to the citizen participation in the press and media. She has been academic secretary of the Department of Journalism (2015/2021). The research projects in which he has participated are fundamentally based on the Journalism-social networks binomial. Its incorporation into the academic field has been preceded by almost a decade dedicated to professional journalism in the press and television. She has worked as a writer, coordinator and host of television programs.
Koldobika Meso Ayerdi, Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Koldobika Meso Ayerdi. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country. He is Director of the same department. He holds a PhD in Journalism. He has teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has published more than a hundred works in the form of chapters, books and articles in quality academic journals. He has presented more than hundred papers and communications at national and international conferences. These publications have been developed in the framework of her continuous participation in more than a dozen research projects funded in competitive public calls He has also led Educational Innovation Projects and has participated in another three as a researcher, within the framework of the activities of the KZBerri Educational Innovation Specialised Group. He has led and participated in several relevant research and transfer contracts with public entities (Euskal Irrati Telebista/Radiotelevisión Pública Vasca). He has four recognised six-year research periods.
Jesús Ángel Pérez Dasilva, Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Jesús Ángel Pérez Dasilva. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Journalism at the UPV/EHU. He has been Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication (2009-2012), Director of the Master's Degree in Social Communication (2016-2018) and member of the University Teaching Evaluation Commission (Docentiaz, 2016-2022). He is a member of the Gureiker research group. He has been visiting professor at the University of Cambridge (2012) and has participated in the Erasmus+ teaching mobility programme at the following universities: Trieste (2011), Beira interior (2013), Porto (2015), Braga (2016), Wroclaw (2017 and 2019). He has participated in 27 research activities in competitive calls being in 5 of them the principal investigator. He is co-author of 65 scientific articles (13 Q1 and Q2 in SJR/WOS), 27 book chapters and 100 conference contributions. He holds 3 six-year research periods. His lines of research focus on digital journalism, educational innovation and social networks.
María Ganzabal Learreta, Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
María Ganzabal Learreta is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country. She holds a PhD in Journalism and a Master's degree in Digital Documentation from Pompeu Fabra University. She has worked in several communication agencies and in the Art Department of the American magazine New Woman. Her undergraduate teaching is related to subjects such as Social and Participatory Journalism and Transmedia Narratives. She also teaches at postgraduate level, in the Master of Feminist and Gender Studies and in the Master of Social Communication where she teaches subjects related to gender and journalism. She has published multiple works in the form of chapters, books and articles in quality academic journals. She has also presented papers and communications at national and international conferences. These publications have been developed within the research framework of which she is part in more than a dozen research projects funded in competitive public calls, both at the university level, regional and National Plan R+D+I.
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