How virtual learning environments transform learning scenarios

Abstract

Technology integration in the classroom is an ongoing process where students and teachers modify their interaction and roles. In this integration, technological devices and virtual resources are used to achieve better educational purposes and enhance its processes. Additionally, through technology integration different skills needed in this century can be actually developed. Nowadays, teachers are implementing virtual scenarios in function of the learning process, like an option to integrate traditional education with progressive technology that society has used to impulse social, economic and cultural relations. This strategy has shown a variety of benefits in educational environments; however, it has been garbled by social and curricular barriers that limit the benefits of the use technology in education. This article includes some factors that make technology integration a way to revitalize traditional education, it also mentions why this integration is a successful strategy to improve the teaching and learning processes, to generate new knowledge and to enrich existent information.