NEW ENVIRONMENTS FOR A VIRTUAL CONSOLIDATED COMMUNITY

Abstract

On August 2004 de Virtual University of Quilmes Program (UVQ Program), of the National University of Quilmes implemented the platform “University Campus on Virtual Environments” (Campus nUEVo). The UVQ Program, born on 1999 and pioneer in Argentina, begun a process of innovation after five years of using an adaptation of the Virtual Campus of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya as a medium and environment for developing formation proposals. The main objective of this work is to keep track of the process in which a college community of over four thousand members, migrated from the technologic environment where it was originally constituted, set and socialized to another, new and novel. Here we will go over the institutional strategies of contention, re-socialization inside the environment and solutions to most relevant problems. Also we will analyze the dynamics of the relationship between pedagogical method, technological alternatives and characteristics of the virtual community, as strong conditions of the design of the platform and strategy of implementation. Last we will expose the prospective of developing and innovation at the UVQ Program, from that change.