Role Of The Teacher And Virtual Student

Role of the teacher and virtual student

The role that educators must play, both in the face -to -face and distance mode, are currently being emphasized. Likewise, there is an evolution in the lexicon that tends to forget the word professor to give way to a facilitator, moderator tutor, monitor, guide, advisor, advisor, instructor. Similarly, there is less and less talk about ‘teaching’ and more and more about ‘learning’. The same goes for the word ‘student’ that is being replaced by ‘apprentice’ (Marín Muñoz)

As in the traditional class, the student of a distance course interacts with the materials that the facilitator has prepared for him, such as digital texts, guides, as well as with multimedia material, or the links they have selected to reinforce the contents stored ina Web page.

The facilitator and his apprentices, both interactions are considered essential to ensure the happy term of a distance course, “the success of a course depends fundamentally on the way the interaction has been planned even during the elaboration of the materials, and howThe tutor is involved in interaction ". (Sherry l.) Regardless of the technology used, the tutor and its way of acting is the essential factor to ensure that the learning environment with technology will be favorable to the apprentice.

In a virtual environment, the quality, variety and dynamics of interactions, as well as the enthusiasm and delivery of the tutor, in addition to the design of the course, its presentation and accessibility are fundamental to retain the apprentices and so that they feelIn a learning environment.

For this, the tutor must possess skills that are required at the time of imparting learning such as understanding the nature of distance education, identifying the particularities of students of remote places, designing and developing interactive materials that are adapted to the technology that will beto use and constitute instructional materials that provide independent study.

But not only the tutor is the one who must develop certain skills, the student who in this education methodology must be an apprentice also has prominence, the apprentice must develop knowledge about ICTs, it must be autonomous in their learning, this leads to the development ofleadership and commitments when carrying out and organizing their activities, he is also solely responsible for establishing his time.

If the tutor is seen in a change in their tutorial activities, the student must also change their practices: to be passive, to wait for things to happen, it must become the main character of the learning process.

The principle that the student must be the center of the process becomes a reality, to the extent that he must take responsibility for his own learning and assume an active role. However, many of the tasks that the student must perform will be assigned little by little by the tutor, since he has the responsibility of encouraging discussions, searches within the suggested material and if he makes motivating proposals the student will respond enthusiastically and show adynamic.