Manuel Salamanca (Complutense University of Madrid, ES) on “Dissemination of knowledge in the virtual environment: organization of activities of I+D+I” held on 29.04.2015 at the international conference "Archival Cooperation and Community Building in the Digital Age" within the panel "Learning the past to build the future: education in the Digital Age" at Břevnov Archabbey in Prague (CZ).

1. Dissemination of knowledge in the virtual
environment: organization of activities of I+D+I
Prof. Dr. Manuel Salamanca López
University Complutense of Madrid

2. EDUCATION AND INNOVATION

3. For the purposes of educational innovation, the important thing is not the
age of the "computer", but the transformer of its educational use. In this
regard, some considerations must be made.
At schools there are three dimensions that move at different rates:
- Administrative, usually slow in its changes.
- The technological, which is transformed with greater speed.
- The academician, whose subjects and processes differ in his rates of
continuities and changes.
- Therefore, any innovation should consider the complex
multidimensional nature of the educational institutions.
The TICs must make possible the construction of new social relations and
new ways of sharing and recreating knowledge

4. ONLINE LEARNING

5. 1. Considerations

6. There is unanimous agreement at the moment of
point to the limitations of traditional teaching:
1. The number of pupils in the classrooms.
2. The conditions of space and equipments.
3. Number of school hours.
4. Lack of flexibility and availability: students
can not access training anytime and anywhere.

7. Some, also, see in the virtual education good
way of reducing the educational costs. In
spite of it, the speech of the efficiency can be
dangerous.
The experience demonstrates clearly that
education based on the computer, with its
continuous requirements, upgrades,
maintenance, and technical support staff and
administrative "does not cost no more and no
less that traditional education".

8. 2. BENEFITS

9. 2.1. General benefits

10. 1. It incorporates texts, fixed images, animations,
videoes, sound.
2. Enables updating of the contents and activities
permanently, something that the textbooks
don’t possess.
3. There are no geographical limitations, because it
uses all the potentials of the network, so that
the markets of the training are opened.

11. 2.2. Benefits for the student

12. - The user can take an active role in relation to the pace
and level of work, adapting the study to your personal
schedule and without problems of mobility.
- Students can recover on their own personal computers
resources, to be character online.
- The online training resources do not have to focus on a
single space or institution
- Also, it allows to appeal for trainers who not necessarily
have to be in the same geographical space.
- High follow-up of the work of the pupils, since the
formation is organized around tasks that students must
perform and forward in a timely manner
- Horizontal communication among students, because
collaboration is part of the training techniques.

13. 2.3. Benefits for the University

14. -Allows to extend its offer training
to those people or workers who may
not attend to their classroom courses.
- It increases the efficacy of budgets
for education and research.

15. 3. STANDARDS

16. -Are rules and specifications that regulate the
accomplishment of certain processes to guarantee
the interoperability.
-For the producer of resource, it allows a only
contents format that can be used on several
platforms.
-For the students, it allows to choose between a
major number of products (courses) and also that
the results of his learning (credits and
certifications) are more easily comparable.

17. 3.1.What should be standardized?

18. Must be the subject of standardization, among
other:
-The technical requirements.
-The organization of the educational contents.
-The material that will be evaluated.
-The mechanisms for the transfer of courses.

19. 4. RISKS ON THE USE OF THE
TECHNOLOGIES

20. - With the computer the pupils handle information and informative
packages, but it is the reflection and dialogical relationship that builds
knowledge.
- Imbalance between the quick development of the technology and the
limited capacity to incorporate it.
- Add to the social, cultural, economic exclusions ... the digital
exclusion.
- The success or the failure of the virtual learning cannot measured
with the same patterns that we use for the traditional education.
- The abundance of information in the network and the heterogeneous
of his quality and provenance, can confuse us to do right choice of
contents.

21. 5. Stick with the BENEFITS!

32. THANK YOU