Analysis indicators of the networks of collaboration for learning in environments virtual

Abstract

This paper presents the importance of collaborative learning in current education, mainly in higher education, which is where the least research has been done on the use of ICT in the classroom. The experience and use of networks in virtual learning spaces was analyzed in an exploratory way, in order to verify the real advantages of their use and how they favor learning. The research was considered from the training framework of the graduate programs of the Virtual University System. The methodological procedure carried out was to analyze collaboration networks in virtual environments and how they influence the learning of postgraduate students, dimensions and categories were determined. Its approach was both qualitative and qualitative, an intentional sampling was chosen, the dimensions of analysis included collaboration for learning as a central axis.