Emerging technological transformations in police teaching-learning processes based on virtual reality

Abstract

Global society is immersed in changes and transformations that affect institutional educational processes, due to emerging advances in science and technology. In this sense, the present research aimed to optimize the teaching-learning processes at the “Francisco de Paula Santander” General Police Cadet School (ECSAN), based on emerging technological transformations with the use of virtual reality simulators. A qualitative documentary analysis was carried out, based on the sources and the critical apparatus on the design of virtual reality scenarios as a successful experience in the ECSAN. An instrument was applied to collect information, as a survey, with 936 cadets from the school. In terms of results, as society transforms and students demand new methodologies and learning tools to acquire knowledge of the police profession, the need arises in the School to generate other learning and teaching scenarios that become an opportunity to connect informative content (theoretical, conceptual and doctrinal) with procedural content, based on a training model that encourages pedagogical interaction between knowledge, knowing how to do and being. In conclusion, it is important to maintain the use of ICT, as well as the permanent use of virtual learning scenarios, to generate a practical application of knowledge, allowing the resolution of problems according to the contexts and the various situations required by the police service.