The educational use of emerging virtual classrooms in higher education

Elena Barberà, Antoni Badia

Abstract


The present article briefly describes key concepts relating to six basic instructional dimensions that determine the quality of the virtual teaching and learning process. Each of these dimensions represents pedagogically identifiable dimensions (the teacher, the students, the context, educational time, contents and the teaching methodology). Moreover, the article aims to stimulate reflection on and analysis of the potential psychological development that can occur within the framework of emerging virtual education, which is related to conventional education, and especially in higher education organizations.

Keywords


virtual quality; e-learning; virtual teaching; distance learning; virtual context; blended learning; psychological development

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/rusc.v2i2.253

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