Virtual Education and Learning Ecosystems: Contributions from New Information and Communication Technologies

Abstract

This article is the product of the collaborative work between several university professors from the Corpas Sana, Pedagogy-Science-Spirituality and Cibeles research groups, from the Juan N. Corpas University Foundation, Santo Tomás University and Catholic University of Colombia, who have been investigating the connections established between virtual education, new communication and information technologies and their contributions from learning ecosystems and in the context of the learning ecosystems. particularly from the challenges that Artificial Intelligence demands. The methodology was based on systemic documentary analysis and, in particular, specialized texts on epistemological and theoretical references of the object of study, which were integrated in a heuristic way; The conclusions and contributions are in line with vindicating the role of teachers, as well as the good use and exploitation of ICTs and A.I. in cognitive and metacognitive processes inside and outside the classroom.