Virtual classrooms as a model for knowledge management

Introduction

Education today is facing many challenges and one of them is to respond to the profound social changes, economic and cultural rights as provided for the so-called “Information Society and Knowledge” in this era of Information and Communication, and the Internet which has generated a huge interest in all areas of our society and its thanks to its growing use for educational purposes has become an open field for reflection and research.

Knowing that the “virtual classrooms” are half in which teachers and learners are to carry out activities that lead to learning, and that the concept of knowledge is the ability to transform data and information into effective action and effective, in the next lecture discuss the topic of “Virtual Room as a Model of Knowledge Management ‘, and try some of these concepts: influential factors, classification, usage and other items that have some connection with such innovative topic.

Concept of Virtual Classroom

The world in which we live is identified with the dynamics, where what is true today, perhaps tomorrow does not have the same value, being the only constant change it. For that reason, educators and learners, we have been waiting for the arrival of new forms of education and tools to achieve efficiency and effectiveness, implementation, in some cases and innovation in others, the process of finding a means of bringing the Internet to the public officer new features and elements that provide access to knowledge without the involvement or have moved nourished budgets to purchase materials and make available to everyone. It is known that most Internet through Web pages on the classroom resources that before were not even imaginable to a low-cost and easy access. Is that this source of inexhaustible facilities has been embraced by a large number of teachers from different systems and levels of education. Thus, this has led to the birth of sites and web sites designed for teaching and the idea of doing an educational use of the Internet. These spaces are what some experts have called “virtual classrooms”.

Modern organizations need to update the resource materials, and most importantly, the human capacity to give timely and effective response to new challenges proposed by the “Information Society and Knowledge.” The concept of virtual classrooms has come to fill the gap that for many years has had a traditional education, as educational need in this society has been in the technological changes of great magnitude, in which an increasing number of people from all socio-economic levels who need training in order to keep pace with the changes around us, without necessarily having to adapt to traditional training that are not commensurate with their daily lives.

Knowledge and Management of the same

We understand the importance of knowledge as each of the sensory faculties of man.

The management of knowledge some experts define it as a way to identify, detect, rework, and make available to the entire organization knowledge and practices that bring added value to the members of any entity. Joyanes, (2003) also said that the management of knowledge means to deliver those data and information needed to be efficient (effective) in their work or organizations, which is the organizational and institutional process which technologies should allow:

* Identify necessary knowledge,
* Identify where and who has the knowledge or if you need to be created,
* Collect and capture the knowledge identified,
* Determine its importance,
* Summarize and synthesize the information available,
* Distributing information at different levels,
* Update, delete and modify the outdated knowledge and
* Save and organize knowledge obsolete, if any, for future reference.

Virtual Education

The Virtual Education governing the use of new technologies, to develop alternative methodologies for the learning of students in special populations that are limited by their geographic location, quality of teaching and the time available.

Principles

The virtual education as the education of the twenty-first century, has the following principles:
• Self
• Self Learning
• The orientation
• Virtualization
• The technology
• The virtual sociability

Features
• It is appropriate for data, text, graphics, sound, voice and images through regular television programming classes.
• It is cheap, because there is no need to scroll to the presence of teachers or to school.
• Is innovative as the motivation of new interactive learning scenarios
• It is a motivator in learning, to be in four walls of the classroom.
• It is present, because it allows the latest news via the Internet and information systems.

Positive Aspects To learners
• You can adapt the study to your personal schedule.
• You can make their holdings so meditated by the possibility of working offline.
• The student has an active role.
• All students have access to education, not to be harmed those who can not attend classes regularly for work purposes, the distance …
• There improving the quality of learning.
• Optimization of significant learning: At the same time assimilating other learning.
• Save time and money.
• The learner does not have to focus at the center of study.
• The student and player is responsible for their own learning process.
• The student receives a more personalized instruction.

Issues at institutional level
• It allows the university to offer training to businesses without the added weight of travel, accommodation and allowances of its employees.
• It enlarges its offer training to those people or workers who can not access the classes.
• Improved efficiency in the school due to technological advancement.
• Improving the performance of teachers, as part of the time previously devoted to the class, will be invested in better curriculum design and research.

Negative Aspects
• Unequal access to the population.
• Technical malfunctions that could disrupt classes.
• Lack of standardization of computers and multimedia.
• Lack of programs in quantity and quality in the Spanish language, although there are many in the English language.
• It can be slow and therefore unmotivated.
• Not offered the same person to person contact as well as classes.
• It requires an effort of greater accountability and discipline on the part of the student.
• Not everything can be learned from the Internet.

Role of Technology in Education
• Assistant students to write and calculate
• Guide to students.
• To facilitate the purchase of educational resources from remote locations
• To assist teachers in evaluating student progress and administration of the investigation.
• Encourage collaboration between students and teachers

Impact of computers in Students
• Learn more in classes where receiving instruction based computers.
• They learn lessons in less time with computer-based instruction.
• For students like most classes where receiving help from computers.
• Develop more positive attitudes toward computers when they receive help from them in the study.