The training is the base of the global growth, the know does not occupy place and is the best form to progress of efficient way in a society that is in a constant movement and that precise of an education adapted to the demands and needs thanks to the new technologies. Now more than ever the education to distance earns greater importance and incorporates of natural way to our daily routines, so much to professional level, educational like personnel. It is the era of the teleformación or education to distance, also called and-learning.
The teleformación is the process of education-learning made through internet, with help of the technologies and of telematic form, in which it offers to the student some multidisciplinary educational surroundings, interactive, dynamic and in constant update. The student is now the true leading of his learning.
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The versatility and ease of the learning that offers this system in which the student can access practically anytime and place of the world is the big advantage of the teleformación. Nowadays the access to the information is immediate from practically any device connected to Internet. Other big advantages of this type of education to distance are:
The teleformación allows to reach to any person, community and organisation from any place by what the access to the information expands his access of form practically boundless. They do not exist already barriers neither of space neither of time to study and form. The fact of not having to displace facilitates the access to people that can not assist of face-to-face way or suffer some type of inability that does not allow them desplazazarse, that not to form.
Always up to date. The access to tools of education to distance through Internet opens the information to all the world and favours an update of the same of way faster and dynamic, in accordance with the times and the society that live.
The educational and students no longer have to be slopes of the schedules of the classes since the access to the same produces of constant way the 24 hours of the day. By this reason, can access to give this type of education to educational distance that in other cases could not paginate his obligations with the training as well as the people that by work and other impossibilities can not assist. The learning goes back flexible by what adapts to the needs and lives of each person much more that when it needs attend to face-to-face classes to determinate hours of way more fixed or constant.
This yes, exist teleformaciones that from time to time demand also conferences, talks or tutorías face-to-face in direct, to clear doubts or other educational reasons, but that in a lot of occasions even can adapt to the needs of ones and others. A computer, a smartphone and a connection to Internet is sufficient to follow advancing in our studies.
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The tools of education to distance propose methods of follow-up of the evolution of the training of his students supporting in the technologies. The professor can know at all times in which point finds the student, that goes surpassing the diverse phases of the plan of studies or autoevaluaciones that remain registered in the system for his comprobación and in a lot of cases to be able to give step to the following block of work.
They allow to keep a permanent contact with professors and other students through tools like forums or chats that approach the study to a network of students and professors that in face-to-face conditions is used to to be more reduced. Many times it is easier to dare to ask a doubt through a forum or chat that do it in person attending to the dispatch of the professor. The social networks can use his best expensive to help to people with a same aim to know , are of where are, thanks to the technology and Internet. Never ask a doubt was so easy, if it wants .
The use of the new technologies in the training of students allows that they can update the contents of way more constant as well as the educational resources and environments of teleworking, like the intranets or tools of follow-up and evaluation. The adaptation to the needs of the students and professors makes of way faster favouring an up to date education. Besides, the high demand of courses of on-line training demands to the institutions that organise them have the best temarios so that his students choose his plans of study.
It avoids besides that the educational have to make repetitive tasks, as have to give the same class in several groups. This fact frees it of time and of labour stress to be able to improve the following trainings and investigations on the thematic.
The fact to be able to avoid trips for educational and students, avoid rents of temporary accommodations to be able to study or even that it needs less material form for the study economiza the study. No always they are cheaper the on-line courses, but also largely due to the fact that they contribute material that of another form it is necessary to buy it apart from the registration. Besides, the time also is gold by what can organise our time so that it help us to optimise it, apart from not spending time in trips to be able to it invest in other activities or responsibilities.
For a student, the fact to form supposes to put in a balance the pros and contras. Some of the general advantages for the student to part of the already mentioned are these:
No everything go to be advantages in to training to distance. Obviously, the face-to-face training enriches to the student and educational to the interactuar socially of way more effective and making bows of union stronger between the people, which also is an important factor for the development of a process of education-effective and committed learning.
Another of the problems is related precisely with the technology. Although a big number of people has access to technological tools although they are simple and to the use of Internet, the reality is that they still exist a lot of limitations in this regard and does not arrive by the same to all the world. This technological capacity reduced closes the field of the education to distance to a wide number of people that yes could allow the face-to-face education.
What better was mounted the on-line course less inconvenient or more reduced will find the students and professors. Still like this, the most usual problems for the students are what follows: