Impact of the virtual office on the online pedagogical practice of university teachers

Abstract

University virtualization brought with it improvements in the quality of administrative and educational processes in response to current educational demands; Under this perspective, the article aimed to report a research whose purpose was the analysis of the impact of the virtual office on the online pedagogical practice of the postgraduate university professor of the Libertador Experimental Pedagogical University – Pedagogical Institute of Barquisimeto. It was developed under the positivist paradigm, a quantitative, non-experimental descriptive approach. The techniques used to collect the information were the survey, and the instrument was the Likert scale questionnaire. The study population consisted of 31 graduate professors, and purposive sampling was used, selecting 12 professors with specific characteristics. Regarding the analysis of the information, it was processed by means of descriptive statistics. Finally, the results showed that the UPEL-IPB virtual office is an interactive online environment par excellence where administrative and academic processes are managed and that, through technical support and advice, it provides didactic resources from the Moodle platform and the web 2.0 that allows university teachers to acquire tools to optimize their online pedagogical practice in virtual classrooms.