Virtual education and its impact on academic performance

The article presented aims to carry out an analysis about virtual education and its impact on the academic performance of students. Currently, the use of technology has become a transcendental requirement from the confinement, for this reason, all face-to-face or traditional educational activities had to be suspended, for which reason virtual classes were radically and immediately used, which led to the implementation of a new teaching methodology. That is why teachers were also forced to use virtuality, considering important elements such as: continuous training, collaborative commitment, emotional support, technology management, among other aspects that helped to relate to students. The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) allowed to convert the existing limitations into real challenges, with the purpose of training the student in his path to professionalization and, in a special way, directing him in the area of knowledge of eduational informatics. Therefore, virtual education offered the educational system resources and tools that empowered students to develop significant learning, in addition, it favored the acquisition of multimedia skills and knowledge that were not seen before, interactivity with information, the teacher and between students.

• Main Author: Vallejo Pilco, Luis Eduardo (author)
• Format: article
• Language: spa
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Educación virtual; rendimiento académico; confinamiento; tecnologías; enseñanza-aprendizaje; Virtual Education; academic performance; confinement; technologies; teaching-learning; Educação virtual; desempenho acadêmico; confinamento; tecnologias; ensino-aprendizagem.
• Online Access: https://revistas.uteq.edu.ec/index.php/csye/article/view/591