Education Technology

Technology has been helping education for a while. Since internet became popular, students and educators use it as a a good source of information. But now many schools and universities are launching virtual education in which students has a complete access to a virtual area to follow the subject. I think that the future will bring amazing opportunities for this, but my question is, will this kind of education good for the human society?. I’ve been working for a virtual university for a while I’m a tutor of a couple of courses and my impression is that even virtual education have a lot of potentiality still people need to communicate and shares ideas person to person. But that wont be a problem if we are training people, cause in this activity students acquire skills, knowledge and why not experience. So it will depends on the benefits/Cost balance. The problem would be if we move virtual education to more base education as elementary school. In this stage students beside training are receiving education which is a much more complex activity where students develop mental and moral values. if we want to develop a better society (and better persons of course) we would keep education the way it works now and let the training for information technology.