Distance and virtual education: quality, disruption, adaptive learning and mobile learning
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https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.20.2.18737Keywords:
distance education, digital learning, quality and effectiveness, disruptive education, learning analytics, adaptive learning, mobile learning.Abstract
Although faced with resistances, distance and digital education is overtaking face-to-face formats. When pedagogical designs are successful, there is evidence of the quality of digital learning. The effectiveness of these systems is at least similar to that of face-to-face proposals. This paper introduces the debate on innovations and disruptive technologies, arguing that digital learning (as a new version of distance education) is an educational disruption both because it brings about a drastic change of media and methods and because it is continually gaining ground from conventional formats. Finally, it is claimed that this trend is not exhausted, but continues to penetrate and deepen the break with new technologies, such as learning analytics, adaptive learning and mobile learning.
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