Introduction. Technology offers a different approach regarding learning abilities and the activities that students engage in using communication tools such as WhatsApp. Objective. To describe the assessment of the WhatsApp application for collaborative work in post-graduate students of health services management. Methods. A quantitative, prospective, cross-sectional study. The Questionnaire to assess the use of WhatsApp for regulating group work, composed of 59 questions and 4 dimensions was used. Results. In the dimensional analysis, the answers from low-value responses were the most frequent in all cases. Second semester students responded favorably to the use of WhatsApp, while fourth semester students had a negative response in all dimensions. Global analysis showed that 32,9% of students refers high valuation and average valuation, while 34,2%...

Objective. Describe the virtualization process of general and special pathology courses and the perception of students. Methods. Non-experimental, prospective, and cross-sectional study. For the virtual teaching of the courses, the Moodle platform was used; and, for histopathology practices, the Pathpresenter platform was used. 126 students from the general pathology course and 133 from special pathology participated. The questionnaire developed by Justin Krawiec and Quality Matters for Higher Education Rubric was used, consisting of 27 questions with Likert scale responses ranging from 1 to 5, where 1 is valued as totally disagree and 5 as totally agree. It has a reliability of 0.96 according to Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The global assessments were established using percentiles. Results. Use of Moodle: the clarity of the content obtained an evaluation of 3.9 and 4, while the prese...

Describe el uso del WhatsApp y su valoración en el trabajo colaborativo de estudiantes de la maestría. La investigación es cuantitativa, descriptiva de corte transversal. La población estuvo conformada por estudiantes de la maestría. Se utilizó una muestra probabilística estratificada conformada por 79 estudiantes. Se aplicó un cuestionario creado por Vilches y col. (2019). que contiene 59 preguntas, dividido en cuatro dimensiones y con una confiabilidad de 0.92. Encuentra que el WhatsApp es una herramienta de comunicación que tiene gran aceptación. El grupo bajo obtuvo mayores puntuaciones en las dimensiones: organización del trabajo grupal 35.4% (28), sistema de comunicación para tareas grupales 39.2% (31), mientras el grupo medio obtuvo mejores puntuaciones en la dimensión relaciones interpersonales 4 0.5% (32) y en presencia de limitaciones 35.4% (28). Los estudiantes de...