El Internet Relay Chat (IRC) como estrategia de innovación en la enseñanza abierta. El caso de la Licenciatura en Comunicación, Universidad veracruzana

Abstract

This article aims at introducing the Internet Relay Chat as a tool for educational innovation, with great potential for teaching the use of distance education and construction and knowledge management. One of the goals of education is to train people who know how to recognize phenomena that occur around them in order to acquire new learning. The educational innovation allows structuring collaborative groups (both in attendance as environments in virtual environments) and it is precisely in these virtual environments where IRC is constituted as an educational platform, which is intended to organize and manage online courses. It gives prominence to its advantages, potential and learning conditions on the cooperative learning in the virtual classroom. The IRC as an innovation tool provides immediate feedback to students in the process of building materials, resolution of tasks, exercises, and the possibility of sharing symbolic representations of their environment, the interaction with other states, as well as learning distance, noting how the act of writing takes on a new dimension in this context. This article outlines the research "The usefulness of the chat as an educational tool and its use by students of the Open Education System at the University of Veracruz, Mexico" that shows interesting facts about it, and finally there are suggestions for future studies and investigations in this area of human endeavor.