Management of a Self-instructional Course: A practice in distance university education for working adults

Abstract

Today, university education has expanded its horizons beyond what was thinkable three or four decades ago. The changing scenarios of digitalization, globalization, social, health and virtual have led to a new modality of education. The teaching-learning processes have incorporated modern methodologies, resources, tools, channels and platforms, supporting autonomous teaching, being an important competence that a student must develop according to the demands of the present and future. In this sense, the present study reviews the management of a self-instructional course in working adult students enrolled in the distance career modality, with the purpose of verifying which dimension is the most relevant in their student work, and in their self-learning. The results reflect that 87% of students are at an advanced level for the general management of the course, however only 34% of students are located at the intermediate level corresponding to information management, understood as understanding the modality of the self-instructional course as well as training in the management of virtual platforms, therefore it is essential that the working adult student who has another form of adaptation to virtuality, understands from the beginning the operation of the mechanisms of the self-instructional course.