Didactics in virtual learning environments

Abstract

The unstoppable growth of the Internet, with the use of ICT, has helped the improvement of computer applications, which facilitate virtual educational environments, in which they transcend from a traditional teaching to a new online educational modality, where the teacher must be thoughtful and creative to motivate students in these environments to learn. These require didactics that are perhaps more demanding than the face-to-face classroom, but not totally different. The physical separation between teacher and student must be compensated with a continuous didactic interaction. Motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions in Ecuador had no alternative but to move their classes from a face-to-face classroom to an online one, thus emerging the reality of the teacher in the management of technologies in the classroom. In this sense, the objective of this article is focused on exposing how didactics applied in virtual environments can generate a new type of education. This article is the product of a bibliographic review, the contribution of several consulted sources and the author's experience from virtual spaces. The pandemic that today plagues humanity has increased the discrimination gap in all those groups in Ecuador that do not have access to technology, thus marginalizing them in their teaching and learning process, in the same way, the preparation of teachers in the management of tics plays is a key factor for these processes.