Virtual Education in Chile: An Example of a New Space for Learning

Jose Manuel Salum Tome

doi:10.20849/jed.v5i3.945

Abstract

The Virtual Education was born in 2002 from a joint project between the Center for Improvement, Experimentation and Pedagogical Research CPEIP and the Center for Education and Technology Links.CPEIP has developed a line of distance teacher training through the Internet running several courses since 2002, and Links during the last 15 years has dedicated its efforts to provide the access of teachers and students to educational opportunities associated with new technologies of Information and communication. Both institutions decided to combine their efforts and develop a joint project that integrates the CPEIP distance teacher training line, up to now aimed at curriculum updating, different strategies to support the appropriation of ICTs and their curricular integration.

Highlights

Virtual education with e-learning and b-learning modality for teacher updating, is an initiative with coverage throughout the Chilean territory and is financed by the Ministry of Education of Chile through the Center for Improvement, Experimentation and Pedagogical Research (CPEIP)
The training is inserted within the framework of the curricular reform, and incorporates ICT resources in the learning activities and teacher training
This modality was born in the context of a line of teacher training with the support of a virtual component implemented by the CPEIP

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Introduction

Virtual education with e-learning and b-learning modality for teacher updating, is an initiative with coverage throughout the Chilean territory and is financed by the Ministry of Education of Chile through the Center for Improvement, Experimentation and Pedagogical Research (CPEIP). The training is inserted within the framework of the curricular reform, and incorporates ICT resources in the learning activities and teacher training. This modality was born in the context of a line of teacher training with the support of a virtual component implemented by the CPEIP. Penetration in the use of ICT in teachers is increasing by 80% of teachers with computers at home, 51% of them with Internet, 58% of them with broadband (Collect and Links 2004)

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