VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS AS PEDAGOGICAL MEDIATION IN TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESSES

The general aim of this research was the one to identify the incidence of the virtual classrooms like mediation pedagogical in the process of education-learning of the students of the Facultad de Educacion Virtual y a Distancia of the Corporacion Universitaria Minuto de Dios, seat Bello, Colombia. To his time commissioned to describe how the educational of the Faculty implement strategies of virtual education for the acquisition of significant learnings by part of the students in the distinct courses that give. Methodologically, a Qualitative-phenomenological design was followed and Observation and Content Analysis were used as data collection techniques, and observation guides and analysis matrices as instruments. The study used four categories of analysis fundamentally: the planning, the use of multimedia resources the integration of the component of virtuality and the communication. The results showed that the educational do a basic utilisation of the diverse tools that has available in the platform Moodle to design strategies of virtual education that support his pedagogical process. At the end of the research the students recognised that to weigh that they exist new interactions and new channels of communication such as the forums, these do not give of constant way and are not the sufficiently effective so that they hit in new processes of learning. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.futureacademy.org.uk