Plataformas virtuales y su impacto en la Educación Superior

Abstract

Education today is responsible for not only transmitting knowledge and information, but must provide the means, skills and abilities to produce and use them in pedagogical practice, creating new scenarios where they develop the educational process.

One of the fundamental ways for the development of such purposes is the use of Virtual Classrooms, as a support to the teacher they allow to elevate the performance and the collaborative work, through the interactivity and the communication between the teacher and the student, taking advantage of the facilities that provide multimedia products for content presentation.

Virtual classrooms as an educational space have become a widely used medium in universities, through which teachers and students participate in a teaching-learning process through the effective use of computers to access, communicate, share and create knowledge that lead to learning.

The adaptation of such technological practices in the educational field promotes the creation of new didactic environments that directly affect both the actors of the teaching - learning process and the scenario where it takes place.

They are a new learning environment, a powerful tool for communication, information and interaction between teachers and students, transcend the barriers of space and time, allow direct communication and immediate or delayed personalized attention between teacher and students, provide a variety of resources that promote the teaching process - collaborative learning and the construction of new knowledge through them.

Virtual education is a viable new form of education that comes to meet the needs, precariousness of face-to-face education and the misuse of educational technology.