Abstract:

Student demotivation is increasingly high, forcing teachers to seek methodologies to improve attention and interest in their subjects. This disinterest and passivity in learning, of a student body that increasingly demands more comforts, translates into high rates of absenteeism and low grades. Faced with this complex environment, teachers who accept the challenge of innovating and adapting to a more participatory teaching and learning process are at a crossroads. On the one hand, either introducing subject assessment systems that benefit the students who attend class, with the grading of the class, or, on the other hand, resorting to the use of ICTs or innovative teaching methodologies that improve the dynamism in the classroom. In this study, this second option has been approached in a hybrid way, as it has been applied to a subject that requires a deep reflection process, such as Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Different teaching methodologies have been used, such as collaborative and mobile learning, which allow the study of the students' adaptation to them. In other words, tools such as interactive debate or the Kahoot! platform have been used to reinforce and evaluate the contents of the subject. This study has been carried out as a result of the large number of studies on the benefits of these methodologies, but without focusing on the results on student grades. For this reason, the main objective of this study is to determine the influence that the use of active methodologies has on students' grades. This work presents as a novelty the application of collaborative methodologies and mobile learning as a source of attraction of student motivation, as well as a comparison between them. All this is based on the proposition that students improve their grades if they are taught with more active and participatory methodologies due to the interest that these methodologies awaken in students who are more accustomed to more flexible teaching methods.

Keywords:

Motivation, mobile learning, collaboration methodology.