ANALYSIS OF HYBRID EDUCATIONAL MODALITIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variables Hybrid Educational Modalities and their impact on the Quality of Education in Latin America. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this paper is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2021, achieving the identification of 16 publications. The information provided by the said platform was organized through tables and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic was referenced by employing a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 7 publications, was the Latin American country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the development of bibliographic material referring to the study of Hybrid Educational Modalities and their impact on the Quality of Education was Social Sciences with 10 published documents, and the Type of Publication that was most used during the above-mentioned period was the Journal Article, representing 56% of the total scientific production.