Abstract

MORADO, María Florencia  and  OCAMPO HERNANDEZ, Stefany. An Accompanying Experience in the Construction of Virtual Environments for Learning in higher education. Educación [online]. 2019, vol.43, n.1, pp.43-61. ISSN 2215-2644.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/revedu.v43i1.28457.

Building virtual learning environments (EVA) that shorten emotional, cognitive and geographical distances is a challenge that many teachers face today. This article relates an experience of Techno-Pedagogical Accompaniment (ATP) with a learning community of 149 teachers in a private university of San José, Costa Rica between October 2016 and March 2017. The objective of the research consisted in knowing, analyzing and documenting the transfroming lived by this learning experience and the process of technical-pedagogical accompaniment that allowed them to move from repositories of online documents to virtual learning environments, The ethnographic method was used with the support of an online questionnaire through an online questionnaire, the survey of participants' expressions in forums and the participant observation as methods of data collection. The experiences of teachers in their process of appropriation of technology and change were analyzed. on their practices based on the meanings they assigned to the process and its transformation. The main findings of the research were first, it is evident that the accompaniment process favored the progressive construction of learning spaces through the use of technology in a creative way; second, the experience generated an innovative, flexible and fun attitude towards the learning processes that led to substantial changes in rigid and traditional educational models; third, the identification and differentiation by teachers between a repository of online documents without evident pedagogical intention and an EVA that encourages interaction and creativity, showing the presence of teachers and students; fourth, they began to visualize technology as an ally in their professional practice, since it allows them to offer different learning alternatives to their students through collaborative design and writing tools.

Keywords : Virtual environment; Education without Distance; learning community; accompanying to teachers.

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