Criteria for assessing the mediator teacher's proficient performance in the Digital Age

Abstract

In Venezuela, the task of educating citizens is assigned to teachers who, luckily today, count with multiple computer and
communication resources to ensure the student to learn. So, the purpose of the present research is to determine performance criteria to assess a skilled performance on the educational usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). A naturalistic research, following by an interpretative approach was carried out, as well as the participant observation, the taking of field notes and the content analysis of activities developed by the professor in three blended-learning courses, at a graduate level. As a result, fifteen indicators or criteria emerged, which can be used to assess the achievement of a skilled teacher’s performance in using internet resources. Therefore, there is no difference between traditional and virtual implementations of curriculum design when the educational goal is to ease learning to learn.