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ROJAS MACHADO, Nictadys; DE LA TORRE RODRIGUEZ, Maidelán; OCANA DIAZ, María  y  PEREZ PEREZ, Gastón. Factors that influence upon the course students to prepare the design of their virtual courses. Rev EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2014, vol.6, suppl.2, pp.45-64. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: the Health Virtual University is an academic entity responsible for the improvement and training of professionals and health technicians. Objective: to identify the factors that influence on the course members to achieve course designs for the Virtual Classroom. Methods: a qualitative and cross-sectional study was conducted at the University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara, from March 2012 to June 2013 which was developed in three stages: exploratory stage, identification of factors stage, and the specialists assessment stage. From the theoretical level, the historical-logical and the analytic-synthetic methods were used; from the empirical level, the documentary analysis, observation, questionnaire, interview and methodological triangulation of information. Once the factors were identified a focus group was invited composed of seven specialists in the field. Results: among the main factors that were determined have influences on the course members to achieve the design of online courses are: nonintervention of the administration for selecting the topics, for not having a policy for the implementation of the Network Learning Model. It is evident the acceptance of this modality, the desire to continue participating, and also fear of damaging the items posted on the platform, the insecurity to browse, the rejection to the administration and lack of confidence to teach courses. Conclusions: the 19 factors that influence on course members to achieve course designs for the virtual classroom, were identified; these are the management type factors, the didactic curricular ones and of attitude.

Palabras clave : Education distance; computer communication networks.

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