Cuestiones en el diseño, creación y producción de recursos para la enseñanza a distancia

Abstract

Information and Communications Technologies have led to a great potential which reaches almost every element in our society. However, this irruption of technology introduces several questions or problematic situations closely connected to the displacement that some people undergo in their professional role due to the pressure of the new technologies.This article focuses on the reconsideration of initiatives for the design and production of educational resources, which can be used in different teaching activities, which expediently combine presential and distance education, through the so-called virtual educational areas.We think the design and production of quality educational resources, which could be suitable for distance learning, it is necessary to recover the creative capability of educators, by means of author tools that enable them to co-exist with this technological revolution without being exiled by it. In this way the paper presents an author tool for the creation of educational resources or hypermedia electronic books, so called “Facilitator for the Composition of Hypertexts”.