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Jun
21
The Future of Virtual Education
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There is a difference between online education and virtual education. First, online education is a type of distance education that allows the construction of knowledge, encourages constant interaction, not attendance, is synchronous and the teacher is who designs the material.
Meanwhile, in virtual education, students and teachers and do not necessarily share the same space or time. A virtual education lies in the change of medium and the potential educational uses of optimizing the use of each medium.
Some of the advantages of virtual education is that students have an active role, there is what is called the feedback, the study can be adapted to your personal schedule, you can work offline, take a pace set by teachers and classmates,
As for the disadvantages of online education is that students may become passive in the perception of ease, a lack of educational structure and infrastructure to avoid costly maintenance. Also, get to have a tendency to work virtually every aspect, omitting cognitive processes and how to learn from students and a total dependence on technology.
Like everywhere, there are successes and failures in virtual education. Starting with the hits, is to make learning by doing, building complex virtual scenarios, and exercises are based on directed or software. In this process, to know and learn, many obstacles that the student will face, but it is precisely this difficulty or challenge and the satisfaction of overcoming what motivates him to continue.
The successes are due to the virtual platform, a tool that serves as a means to carry out the virtual teaching and learning, also the quality of content, business processes, easy access anywhere in the world, quality of information is given.
Meanwhile, the failures occur when you have not created a model in line with the strategy of the institution they do not have the infrastructure to respond to human development courses. Another failure is when the organization that undertakes think education in this mode is of poor quality and consequently education is used as a second-hand. A failure is when you use more materials designed for classroom education, when there is insufficient preparation of teachers and students, when the directors of the institutions do not believe in such projects as technical and administrative aspects than pedagogy.