Virtual education implies total change of the educational system

SANTO DOMINGO.- The Spanish professor Julio Cabero Almenara said yesterday that universities have a great opportunity in virtual education, since the creation of contents for this new model forces them to evaluate and rethink the relevance of their academic offer and the type of learning that they want to transmit to their students.

Cabero Almenara presented his judgments by presenting the conference "Quality in virtual training" during the fourth International Seminar on Teaching Innovation in Higher Education entitled "Quality of Education in Virtual Environments", which organized the Teaching Management Division and the Center for Innovation in Higher Education (CINNES) of Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MEESCYT).

Observe complete expositions of the Seminar in: --->   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QhB1dfqYwM

The professor, specialized in Didactics and School Organization, insisted that the big mistake that many institutions make in the face of virtual education is that they simply reproduce face-to-face education in virtual environments, "without thinking if that new scenario allows them to do things differently, "he said.

He argued that the new educational model requires a change in the role of teachers and students, since the teacher goes from being a transmitter of knowledge to a generator of learning situations, while acquiring new roles and competencies as creators of content, evaluator and technology selector and a moderator.

During the seminar, which was broadcast Live Stream, also exposed the researcher and university professor Germán Escorcia, who stated that the new educational paradigm expects the higher education system to be a system with "extraterritoriality", with offers that compete for aspirants from all over the world.

The Colombian Escorcia was in charge of the topic "Emerging economies and talent axes. Educate for certainties or uncertainty. "

The International Seminar on Innovation in Teaching of Higher Education was organized with the aim of training teachers and managers of higher education organizations for the process of change.

Innovation in teaching
The Innovation Seminar in University Teaching was born in the 2008 as a space for reflection and dialogue about the trends and challenges of teaching in higher education in a context of diverse demands.

Germán Escorcia He is a researcher and university professor, Systems Engineer specialized in Cybernetics, Telematics and Political Science, in the United States, France and Canada. OAS Consultant on scientific information systems, and Vice President of the World Council of Governments of the General Information Program - UNESCO. Consultant in Latin America on innovation, learning and competitiveness. He has been Director of the National Information System in COLCIENCIAS. Manager of the Latin American Center for Research in Education CLIE-IBM.

Julio Cabero Almenara He is professor of Didactics and School Organization of the University of Seville. It has driven the entire process of virtualization of the educational offer of that university, which has managed to make the transition after 500 years of face-to-face tradition. He is director of the SAV (Secretariat of Audiovisual Resources and New Technologies) of this university and founding member of Edutec. He has received the Real Maestranza de Caballería Prize. He has published different works on the subject of educational technology and new technologies applied to education (Educational Technology, Design and use of media in teaching, Paidós, 2001, New technologies applied to education, Síntesis, 2000; professor and teaching in the media, University of Seville, 1998). He is director of the magazine "Pixel-Bit, Media and Education Magazine".