Nuevas formas de aprendizaje mediante recursos educativos a distancia Nuevas formas de aprendizaje mediante recursos educativos a distancia

Abstract

The change and incorporation of technologies in all areas (social, political, scientific, technological and professional, among others) have been a constant in recent times; hence the interest in analyzing how new technologies facilitate communication and interaction between groups while dissipating barriers between teachers and students. The aim of this study is to assess whether the use of new technologies impacts the purpose of learning by facilitating teacher-student and student-student rapprochement. As an example, an English language teaching course was given in two school years to graduate students who took it in five geographically distant locations. The course was offered face-to-face and in distance modality as a complementary activity. Only mandatory activities corresponding to the course were considered for the analysis. The results showed that the teaching of this language in the distance modality is not an impediment to its learning; it was observed that it is other types of factors which influence the English teaching-learning process, particularly teachers’ didactic skills and abilities and students’ attitude towards the use of didactic
technological resources.