Motivation in online training. Practical experiences with the use of badges on the Moodle platform

Abstract

Online training has achieved great relevance after the period of restrictions on face-to-face education imposed by the Covid 19 pandemic, and all its associated processes must be strengthened to achieve the educational quality that today's society demands. Motivation has been a category historically treated by educational psychology, pedagogy and didactics fundamentally, due to its importance for a developmental and participatory teaching-learning process, particularly in technical science careers. In this sense, this research is presented, whose objective is to assess the use of digital badges as a motivating element for the distance training process using the Moodle platform as a virtual teaching-learning environment (EVEA). The article offers practical experiences with the use of badges in Moodle and the result of their application in 71 5th year students of the Computer Engineering degree, at the “José Antonio Echeverría” Technological University of Havana, Cujae, during the academic year 2020-2021.