Research in a professionalizing virtual postgraduate degree in the field of education

Abstract

Postgraduate studies tend to be identified with research and development or professional improvement, which has led to their classification, according to the emphasis that training assumes on those who are oriented to research and those who are oriented to the profession. The objective of the article is to evaluate the type of research that is carried out in a postgraduate with professional orientation offered in virtual mode and located in the field of education, based on the products generated by its students as a result of the training process. This is the Master's degree in Innovation in Virtual Learning Environments, offered by the Autonomous University of Querétaro, in Mexico. The type of study is interpretative with the technique of content analysis applied to institutional documents, research-intervention projects and thesis to identify five categories that ordered the presentation of the results obtained. It is concluded that in the postgraduate courses that, like MIEVEA, are offered in virtual mode, with orientation to the profession and are located in the field of education, a type of research is endorsed that assumes a situated and applied character, which exceeds the limits established in the classification research-profession, research-innovation, training of researchers-vocational training.