E-learning: another way of teaching and learning in a traditional presence-based university. A special case study

Resumen

New technologies (ICT) are creating a revolution that affects not only the world of production but also the training itself. Thus, ICT are creating a diversification of sources of knowledge and a democratization of education. We are in an Era of enormous potential to generate, share and communicate information and knowledge, so the space-time barriers are disappearing. The e-learning, in particular, is becoming an attractive mode of training socially deeply rooted, and is gaining presence in traditional (presence-based) universities. Each academic year is growing the number of training offers through this training system, perhaps due to the social awareness of the advantages of this mode of learning and, above all, taking into account the immediate challenges posed by the information society and knowledge and the needs arising from the process of convergence to the European Higher Education Space (EHES). It is clear that today Universities, as a transformation engine and an economic strategic element, need, more than ever, the e-learning as to prepare highly competent citizens.
In this paper, we present a case study from a broader inter-university research, aiming at examining the implementation strategies of e-learning in universities with on-campus teaching (presence-based universities), focusing specifically in one of the categories of analysis: training and institutional needs that are derived from virtual teaching