Resultados de una investigación comparativa entre la educación semipresencial con materiales impresos y la educación virtual.

1. “EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS UNDER
THE MAGNIFYING GLASS:
A comparative study between text – based
distance education and virtual education”
Mgter. Martha Espíndola
Corrientes - Argentina

2. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
To value the quality of educational materials
and its capacity to cause the independent
and flexible learning, corresponding to the
Special Plan of Degree in Educational
Sciences offered by the Universidad de la
Cuenca del Plata

3. METHODOLOGY
• Qualitative type
• Documentary observation
• Aspects of both types of materials:
– The present enunciative strategy
– The curricular design
– Selection, sequence and organization of
curricular contents
– The type of route promoted by information
– The prevailing implication from the reader
or the author

4. ASPECTS OF VIRTUAL MATERIALS
• Type of technological tools
• Their flexibility
• Type of management information

5. MAIN DATA
• Explicit authors and institutional framework
• Implicit addressees
• Complementary patterns
• Explicit objectives
• Subjects contextualized whithin the curricular plan
• No motivating activities or indicators
• Educational interactions based on written texts
• Individual interactions with the content and information
• No social activities or cooperative construction knowledge
• Rigid route of learning
• Greater implication of author / educator
• No activities to determine previous knowledge
• No activities to encourage self – steem or self – concept
• Meaningful and functional contents for professional trainning
profile
• Contents organized with separators / organizers

6. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PRINTED AND
VIRTUAL MATERIALS
PRINTED MATERIALS VIRTUAL MATERIALS
Previous knowledge and the
competences to develop not
mentioned
Both types of information are
mentioned
Conceptual and procedural
contents included
Conceptual, prodecural and
attitudinal contents included
No technological tools for
communication
Technological tools widely used

7. CONCLUSIONS
• The structure and quality of the mediating
supports in virtual education, such as: written,
iconic, graphic, multimedia, technological, etc.
are important
• Interaction and interactivity are essential
• Interaction and interactivity can be exploited by
using ICT
• The virtual environment of the Career analized
has these technological possibilities

8. HOWEVER …
• It can be concluded that these virtual materials
have not been prepared exclusively to be used in
the web
BECAUSE MOST OF THEM…
• Propose educational interactions based on the use
of the discourse
• Introduce the information through textual codes,
developing linear sequence of the information
• Not use visual support with complementary
indicators, such as: multimedia elements,
images, sounds, graphic, video, etc.

9. ALTHOUGH …
• It cannot be asserted that these proposals are
accompanied the potentials the ICT offers
• It can be observed and emphasized the presence
of meaningful and clear educational proposals

10. THIS IS CORRIENTES, LOCATED IN THE
NORTHEAST OF ARGENTINA

11. CORRIENTES - ARGENTINA

12. THESE ARE SOME VIEWS OF CORRIENTES