Metacognitive processes in distance education

Abstract

This work was performed under the project: "Distance Education. Teaching and learning Network" No. 22/H218 , National University of San Luis, Argentina. The objective is the same, emphasizing the importance of the exercise of metacognitive processes in distance education at higher levels. Knowing the cognitive activity may exert control over it and enhance effectiveness of the processes that take place. This allows better control performance, is called self-regulation. In contexts of university teaching, it is frequently observed that the only thing that changes, usually with curricular reforms is the organization of the courses, the names of the courses and their credit hours. However, it is still considered a "class" as the only area of teacher-student contact in which content and planned activities take place, as it is traditionally conceived in basic education, and prioritizing the learning hetero depositing so the responsibility in teaching, giving the student a passive place, or that it retains the structure of interaction and time management.