29 Dec 08 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.

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Tags: Four Walls, Geographic Location, Institutional Level, Interactive Learning, Learners, Methodologies, Motivator, Personal Schedule, Personalized Instruction, Programming Classes, Sociability, Special Populations, Technological Advancement, Television Programming, Text Graphics, Time And Money, Travel Accommodation, Twenty First Century, Virtual Education, Work Purposes

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