UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BUCARAMANGA STUDENTS AND FACULTY'S PERCEPTION ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE ON AN ONLINE COURSE WHICH INTRODUCE THEM TO DISTANCE EDUCATION ISSUES

The present article will describe and reflect the perceptions of students and faculty about their educational experience from one online course, named: "Induction to a virtual mode education". This course was offered to new students from different programs from a Colombian higher education institution (UNAB). A quantitative study was conducted with a transversal no experimental research design that included a sample of 37 students and 3 teachers. Different instruments for data gather were designed for this research study (2 surveys -questionnaires- and one analysis course guide). The results indicate that the majority of students and faculty perceive that the course accomplish successfully different issues related to pedagogical , technological and organizational components of the course design; several areas for improvement related to the design of the course (educational component), and duration of time in which it is implemented (organizational component) and counseling (online) were detected, in this article will be described and commented.