Using the Virtual Platform URACCAN Campus New Guinea, II Semester 2012

Abstract

This study was carried out in order to evaluate the virtual platform use in URACCANNueva Guinea campus, in the area of Administrative Sciences and Informatics, implemented during the second semester of the year 2012. It was developed with a quantitative approach using the survey as a technique for data collection and interviews with specific sources. The research gives major importance to the Moodle virtual platform and its characteristics, for being the educational software used by the campus to develop educational processes in virtual environments.

The results show little use of the virtual platform, both by students and teachers, although the university has made efforts to train teachers in methodologies through virtual environments, however, the course design by some teachers does not encouraged its use: due to the unattractiveness and the different options that the platform provides are not exploited for its efficient use. Students and teachers see with high expectations and approve complementarily the use of virtual platforms for the development of their classes, as there are few conditions in the university in terms of access and equipment for its implementation.

CIENCIA E INTERCULTURALIDAD, Volume 12, Year 6, No. 1, Jan-July, 2013; 50-65