Problem-Based Learning and Virtual Learning Environments: A model of teaching and learning at the University of Santo Tomás

Motivating learning, teaching, is not an easy task for the teacher, even more so in this time, where technology, communication, social networks, seem to invade digital and physical spaces, it is necessary to reflect on the social function of education, specifically, in its methods and didactics, it is no longer enough to relate knowledge, it is necessary to add a new component to the complex task of educating, it is imperative to transcend to levels of conceptual construction, where students, teachers and the community in general, articulate efforts to find answers to the problems of their environment. The research work, Problem Based Learning and Virtual Learning Environments, represents an alternative look at the new ways of building knowledge inside and outside the classroom, which are inclined to the use and appropriation of technology, energized, extrapolated, with didactic strategies that link knowledge, articulate it, in an effort to solve problems, which our students, our citizens, our world constantly face.