Virtual Education in Chile

Virtual Education was born in 2002 as a joint project between the Centro de Perfeccionamiento, Experimentacion e Investigaciones Pedagogicas CPEIP and the Centro de Educacion y Tecnologia Enlaces. CPEIP has developed a line of distance teacher training through the Internet, running several courses since 2002, and Enlaces has dedicated its efforts over the last 15 years to providing teachers and students with access to educational opportunities associated with new information and communication technologies. Both institutions decided to join forces and develop a joint project that integrates different strategies to support the appropriation of ICTs and their curricular integration into CPEIP's line of distance teacher training, which until now has been focused on curricular updating.