Las funciones tutoriales a distancia y las estrategias de enseñanza: un análisis de los foros y portafolios del AVA-Solar

Abstract

Distance education is a reality in our current context and one of its supports is the virtual learning environment or learning platform. A virtual learning environment is a technology mediated environment that promotes communication, processing, management and distribution of information. It is an instrument that facilitates interactions between the subjects and the construction of the knowledge. Thus, the use of different learning and communication tools that make up that environment and making effective pedagogical mediation, through the action of mentoring are fundamental to successful learning. In this paper we present the Virtual Learning Environment (AVA- Solar), developed by the Universidade Federal do Ceará, in regard to the tools and resources available to it and will examine the key features employed tutorials focused on the analysis of mediation in relation to the activities of portfolio and forums.