ANALYSIS FROM THE SOFT SYSTEMS APPROACH: A WORLDVIEW OF THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY ON VIRTUAL HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

This scientific research article makes an outline from a systemic approach of the worldview of the academic community on what virtual higher education should be. To achieve this, a novel integration has been made between systems thinking and bibliometric analysis techniques; From these techniques, it was possible to transform the key words of the reported academic literature into human activity systems that account for the systems suggested in the field of study. This sketch of systems obtained presents an approach to the minimum human activities required, which gives rise to a Higher Education Institution interested in the virtual modality. Results derived from a doctoral thesis are presented. The results obtained can be used in future works to enrich the reported outline and to encourage the academic community to use the methodological integration proposed here or a similar one in their research, where traditional analysis techniques can subsequently be expressed through the construct of human activity systems, providing an additional basis for academic discussion and understanding of the social application of conceptual interpretations.