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Abstract: Virtual learning in recent years is representing an important educational approach with its own particularities, both in the role of the participating agents and in the learning environment. Virtuality has been incorporated into the scenarios of educational institutions as a response to the demands and needs of the new generations, which require the formation of a series of skills to function in a globalized society in terms of information and the media. . At the National University (UNA) of Costa Rica, these processes of permanent change have led to the consolidation of a Program called "UNA Virtual", whose main objective has been to spread the use and train university teachers in the use of technologies. for training via the Internet. Given these initiatives, a unique experience was carried out with this research project in the Educology Division of the UNA, designing and implementing a degree course called "Teaching Resources for Learning", which due to its curricular characteristics was ideal. to study virtuality in a face-to-face context. In addition to this, the experience has made it possible to give continuity to the process in projection to the year 2008, institutionalizing the course in the nine careers for which it is taught. With this article, the main results obtained in three dimensions are published: the virtuality in presence in the particular context of the Educology Division of the National University of Costa Rica, conjectures of the beliefs of teachers and students regarding the advantages and disadvantages of a virtual educational model and evaluation of the activities, materials and structure of the Didactic Resources for Learning course under a bimodal approach.
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