E-learning is a concept / process that is in absolute growth. Considered as the modality that assisted by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), allows to provide distance education with the indispensable use of interconnected networks for the transmission / reception of educational content.
The growth of the concept is obvious, because as the technological elements increase their specificity, speed, efficiency, usability and veracity, learning environments, study materials, information transmission and dealing with users, among other things. -Many things evolve in proportion.
This rate of change is what generates a great deal of expectations about the importance, use and application of e-learning as a specific element of distance education.
One of the study points that must be considered due to the growth and development of e-learning is the type of associated educational model.
Educational models are not unique because they can be understood as a material or construct base that allow ideas to be operationalized and transform a specific educational reality; These are directly related to the educational paradigm that allows the education / training of individuals.
Online distance education constitutes in turn an educational modality and strategy with two central characteristics: the first is the use of a mediated pedagogical act, that is to say that the moment in which the teaching occurs is separated from the moment in which it is carried out. start learning; and the second is its support in a technological support, which has changed and evolved over time (Del Maestro 2005).