Challenges to be solved in the distance education of the Escuela Superior de Comercio y Administración Unidad Santo Tomás from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Abstract

This paper is about a research made by the Academic Sub-department of teachers of the Higher School of Commerce and Administration, Saint Thomas unit, from the National Polytechnic Institute. It is a descriptive research whose objective is to analyze the opinion of the students regarding the long-distance learning programs and the relationships established when they work together with other students. A 39 questions Likert type survey was made. Published on the platform for 2 months and inviting the students to answer it. One n = 35 students of Public Accounting and n = 25 students of the degree in Commercial Relations were obtained. The main findings allow us to conclude that the students are happy to be able to take a long-distance program, they are motivated, however not all of them like teamwork or working in heterogeneous groups.