Plan de mejoras para el uso del aula virtual como mecanismo de complemento en el proceso de aprendizaje en los estudiantes de la Unidad Educativa La Salle de la Ciudad de Riobamba

Abstract

The research is based on the development of an improvement plan for the use of a virtual classroom applied to students enrolled in second year at General Unified Baccalaureate of the Educational Unit La Salle in Riobamba city in order to guide teachers regarding to applications and tools of virtual classroom which generate interactive participation of students. The research started identifying the problem, justification and definition of variables primarily related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), virtual classroom, plan of improvements and learning process based on Presence, Reach, Knowledge, Interaction, E- learning (PACIE) methodology. In the research the scientific method was used to investigate theoretical and practical knowledge on technological tools that lead to the implementation of the virtual classroom. The inductive method allowed identifying the difficulties in order to reach the generation of facts and phenomena. Finally, the deductive method led to the knowledge of general aspects to identify characteristics. The population is 72 students, 12 teachers, a survey and questionnaire as an instrument. Actual data was obtained to develop statistical tables and figures and proceed to the analysis and interpretation of results on each question. Data from teachers regarding to the applicability of the Improvement Plan of the Virtual Classroom, in the pretest is identified an arithmetic mean of 12.8% of difficulties. Meanwhile, in the posttest reaches an improvement of 94.1%. Once applied the pretest to students regarding to the improvement plan a 25% of non-enforcement was identified. In the posttest reaches an improvement of 91% in the corresponding application, it was started to train teachers in the Moddle tool especially on chat, forums, assignments, test, files, tags, pages, that strengthen their technological knowledge and generate interaction among teacher and students. It is recommended to teachers enrolled in second year the review and updating the improvement plan, ongoing training in technological innovations and the applicability of the virtual classroom in order to achieve meaningful learning.