Tools.

 The tools that are used most often in virtual learning environments must fulfil various requirements in order to foster a quality teaching-learning process. These requirements include, among others, flexibility and the capacity to adapt to change. After all that has been mentioned in previous sections, we are now approaching the moment when they are applied as learning tools. They must be designed with the following question in mind: What can be designed and put into practice in a training programme for which the objective is students learning in an innovative manner, working through collaborative learning, being autonomous in their learning, and in such a way that this learning has some kind of connection to students’ professional realities, all while using ICTs through innovative methodologies?

The purpose of the learning tools that are integrated in training programmes is to systematise the innovation and development process in learning. These tools are created by using open source software as the starting point as a means to transfer and exchange knowledge where all the agents in the learning community carry out their teaching.[ read on ]