INTRODUCTIONEducation in rural and remote contexts has been the subject of study and concern for Human Rights Organizations around the world. Colombia is a country with over 48 million people; in the year 2014, 28.5% of the population lived in poverty, and 8.1% in extreme poverty (El Universal, 2015). The Colombian Finance Minister in the Leadership Summit (Semana, 2015) mentioned that fulfilling the goals of education in the country requires taking actions and planing solutions based on solidarity and engagement of the society. Additionally, authorities must envision effective programs and assign resources to achieve the established goals.The advancement in technology relates to education and its accessibility (Ramirez, 2015). In the international arena, there have been several proposals that promote open access to education through information and communication technologies and internet resources. OpenCourse Ware, MERLOT, and OpenLearn from United Kingdom University are examples of programs that aim to connect education and students and provide open digital resources.The term Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a broad concept that comprises the use of a virtual space for promoting social interaction and achieve educational goals (Dillenbourg, Schneider & Synteta, 2002). VLEs are no exclusively for distance learning, as they can also be a convenient resource for classroom activities. VLEs offer efficient services since their virtual characteristics do not demand the presence of students and professors in a physical environment. With the development of internet and the arrival of new technological tools, distance training through VLEs becomes an alternate mode of teaching. The internet has helped effectively and efficiently to improve the educational processes, as shown in several proposals and projects based on information and communication technology (De Haro, 2005).The model of distance education has found an ally in Open Educational Resources (OER) and VLEs. The term OER was defined in 2004 as a collection of learning objects and contents which can be shared in learning communities. The integration of OER into the educational process could benefit as a strategy to support the teachers' responsibilities and to improve the quality of education (Johnstone, 2005). In contrast, VLEs are defined as a set of systems where individuals can interact synchronously and asynchronously; the environment is based on the curriculum in which teaching takes place. The use of this kind of networks has grown, especially due to their advantages of data processing speed and storage capacity (Garcia, 2003). In distance education, many alternatives have been proposed to promote changes in teaching towards the recovering and rebuilding of the confidence in the student's learning. However, technological innovations cannot be isolated from teaching; on the contrary, they must help transform the educational system. As Leon (2002, p. 4) states: we must study and promote new ways to communicate and manage knowledge, based on new technologies, aiming to improve the quality of academic work; it is the challenge that higher education faces to maintain high competitiveness and future development.A belief about distance education is that it is not completely effective for all kinds of people, since they come from different cultures and countries (Assan and Thomas, 2012). However, learning can be received in a practical and functional way, even with students from different backgrounds (Lopez, 2006). As a strategy to achieve effective learning, the modules and units in an online course must be structured and accessible for their use and understanding. Another held belief is that the distance education is of low quality, due to the lack of reviewers that assure the appropriateness of the materials. In this regard, Salazar (2000) points out the need to consolidate an academic community for the validation and authenticity of the distance education modality. …