Virtual mediation a space conducive to training in research in higher education

Abstract

Within the knowledge society framework fostered by the quick development, overcrowding and appropriation of information and communication technologies, the phenomenon of globalization and the progress that distance education has had since its incursion into virtuality, it is presented as a product of a documentary review, a critical reflection aimed at supporting the virtual mediation scenario as a favorable space for research training in higher education. For this purpose, its origin and evolution are taken into account, elements that characterize it, challenges to be addressed in the 21st century, virtual environments where development can be done and pedagogical budgets associated with research training that can be developed from virtual mediation. This text is part of the developments achieved in the research project Impact of the training processes in pedagogical research on students in the last semester of Bachelor degree in Early Childhood Education offered under the “distance” and / or “virtual” methodology in Bogotá D.C, approved in the VIII Call for the development and strengthening of research in the Minuto de Dios University. This was carried out in a branch located in the south of Bogota