LOS RETOS DE LA EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA

Authors

  • Albert Sangrà Morer

Keywords:

educación a distancia, nuevas tecnologías, transformación del la educación, calidad de la formación, on line education, new technologies, educational transformation, formation quality

Abstract

Resurgement of distance education has come with the outstanding advance of the technology in the last years. The incorporation of ICT like element of mediation between professor and student exerts a modernizator effect and bring advantages to the educational process. This has allowed the distance education to be seen as a real alternative to the presential education, making their old compensatory character be forgotten. In this situation the conventional and virtual systems are condemned to understand each other and arises the necessity to carry out a traditional education transformation. This arti-cle outlines the new challenges that distance education should assume in this new age. Promoting accessibility, contributing to the achievement of a much more customized educational system, and increasing the study systems flexibility are some of them. Oriented to the main challenge of the education: increasing the level of quality of the university formation and promoting the necessary investiga-tion to continue improving.

Author Biography

Albert Sangrà Morer

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

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