THE VIRTUAL MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOLS

Esteban Vázquez-Cano

Abstract


This paper presents a research conducted in fifty schools in the province of Toledo in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) in which the potential of virtual tools and digital resources in the development of management functions and school organization was analyzed. Through a quantitative and qualitative methodology we check educational communities’ opinions about main virtual tools and digital resources to improve communication, administrative tasks, academic activities and digital relationships in order to enhance the quality of educational institutions. We have reached remarkable results, such as: school organization, digital communication among all members of school communities, educational programming, along with teaching functions can be significantly improved with the use of institutional interactive networks that include communicative functions and school management in a virtualized way.


Keywords


school organization, collaborative virtual environments, networking, e-management.

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