E-learning in legal higher education: The experience of the University of Castilla-La Mancha

The rapid technological development in the current world gives universities the opportunity to offer new training alternatives such as teaching through Internet or E-Learning. The E-learning allows to use the potential of the network in the training process and to overcome the space-time barriers associated with traditional education. The experience gained by the department of financial and tax law at UCLM in online courses has revealed that the key of successful in e-learning models lies in the teaching methodology employed to ensure a meaningful learning process in the student, as well as in the correct evaluation. Indeed, the specificity of the online teaching imposes the need to develop resources, materials, tools and instruments for training, monitoring and communication appropriated to the medium used, as well as proper planning of the activities to be performed and high close coordination and flexibility; all with the aim of providing the best education to students. Thus, evaluation must be conceived as a formative and comprehensive process, based on a diverse set of activities developed by means of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools, which allow to develop and to undertake the process of continuous assessment, where the student participates in his own model of learning