Hybrid model in accounting education: The experience of management simulation course

• Published in: Cypriot journal of educational sciences Vol. 16; no. 5; pp. 2402 - 2411
• Main Authors: Moreira Bastos, Susana, Costa Oliveira, Helena Maria, Caggiano, Valeria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United World Center of Innovation Research and Publication Center 2021; Birlesik Dunya Yenilik Arastirma ve Yayincilik Merkezi
• Subjects: Accounting; Accounting - Business Administration; Blended Learning; Business Administration Education; College Seniors; Computer Uses in Education; COVID-19; Distance Education; Education; Foreign Countries; ICT Information and Communications Technologies; Pandemics; Student Attitudes; Portugal; Digitalization Accounting Education; Digital Education; Accountant; Human Skills; Digital Hybrid Pedagogy
• ISSN: 1305-905X; 1305-905X
• DOI: 10.18844/cjes.v16i5.6345

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, he transformation of didactics and technological methods was necessary to promote students’ self-learning and motivation, alongside teachers’ tutoring, guiding students’ academic journey. This paper aims to investigate the effect of COVID-19 on digitalization accounting in higher education and explores the students’ perception of the adapted hybrid model. The study follows a qualitative approach and rely on the final-year students of the accounting and management degree of Accounting and Business of Porto Polytechnic School. Data were collected through a questionnaire from students who experienced both distance and face-to-face education and completed the course of Management Simulation. The study highlights the digitalization of accounting teaching and the pandemic’s effect on the future of digital accounting education. In sum, the hybrid model meets the needs of this practical course and can be a model to be applied in the future.