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The new global communication systems and their integration in all media communication, together with their potential interactivity, are changing our culture and are introducing new questions and challenges in the educative system. The teaching practices are strongly impacted by the development of the new technologies, not only because they influence the professional skills of the teachers, but also because of the roll they have assumed in the

Although these new techniques are arising in the last years in the university education, the teaching-learning processes are based mostly on that of the 15th century. There is still a dominance of printed over the audiovisual and computer media in the transmission of

The idea is then, how to incorporate, in a pedagogical way, these new technologies as useful tools for the presence and distance learning. The possibilities that the virtual environments offer, as potential spaces of collaboration for the learning processes and also for the professional training, are only an example of the great opportunities of these new

The use of computer systems for the development of teaching activities is quite recent, but the evolution of their use is very fast. In fact, in a short period of time (few years) the computers have changed their use from being the helping tool of the teachers in the classrooms to being the main character in the distance learning process through the wide

The distance learning or the e-learning is a new way of education developed thanks to the new information technologies and internet. It is based on the easy distribution of educational materials and communication tools to create a learning frame. There are plenty of definitions for distance learning, but all of them are based in the same idea: it can be thought of as education or training delivered to individuals who are geographically dispersed or separated by physical distance from the instructor using computer and telecommunication facilities (Bélanger & Jordan, 2000) or as other authors describe, it is a process to create and provide access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance, or both (Honeyman & Miller, 1993). It also can

**1. Introduction** 

knowledge.

global university context.

technologies in the university education.

world web, in what is called the e-learning.

**An Example of a Distance Learning Tool** 

Lourdes Rubio and Belén Muñoz-Abella

*University Carlos III of Madrid* 
