Virtualization of educational environments for international collaboration: students as builders of their own learning

Abstract

The incorporation of communication and information technology (ICT) has been a permanent theme in the most recent decades, generating an intense debate about its implications and efficiency, the possibilities to integrate more effectively educational proposals, among other aspects. However, to think in a compulsory use of technologies as the only way to pursue studies was unthinkable. Even though multimodal education models and diverse experiences in e-learning already existed, at the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a crisis due to the impediment of carrying out face-to-face activities in the classrooms around the world. Considering all the emerging situations due the pandemic, the spirit of this article is to share, three years after, the vision of some Mexican students, participants, and ex-participants in virtual and on-line experiences from public universities, regarding mediatized education, and how they consider their learnings in this regard.