Video learning: aprendizaje y educación a través de medios audiovisuales, desde una perspectiva histórica y contemporánea

The article aims to investigate through a historical journey on audiovisual media, specif-ically video. Knowing this option of the use of video during the historical tour gave us a vi-sion about its scope and uses for learning in education. Discovering this possibility of its use as educational video in the current contemporaneity, under the modality of virtual education the educational video becomes a means for didactics.The educational video is an audiovisual material, a didactic tool, which has its origins in the cinema. It was initially used for recreational and entertainment purposes, and later on for political and informative purposes as well. Then, documentary cinema arises, which, al-though it was used for news and propaganda purposes, it was also used as a very useful ed-ucational tool. The true educational films first came at the outbreak of World War II. In 1940, the growth of cinema really began with the growth of american industry. Ten years later, the television industry emerged, and was consolidated in the 1960s. In Europe, the broadcasting of government sponsored educational programs began, first in Italy, where school classes were shown on television. In Mexico it became a state policy by the end of the 1960s, thus creating the TeleSecundarias System. At the 1980s, paid TV services arised, which offered educational channels such as the Discovery Channel (1985). Also, in the 1960s decade the internet appeared, but it was until thirty years later that it became part of daily life, when it was provided to the general public, as a medium that merged cinema, radio and televi-sion. It was initially used only as an interactive medium for commercial and business pur-poses. Later, with the improvement of information technologies that allowed to store and send a greater amount of data, a whole range of possibilities was opened, which allowed video platforms such as YouTube to come up, among others, and also the rise of online schools, so currently audiovisual courses have become one of the most useful tools in the teaching-learning process.

Introducción -- Características y origen del vídeo educativo -- Auege de las películas educativas -- La hermandad del cine y la televisión -- Educación estatal y sin fines de lucro -- Televisión y vídeo con fines comerciales -- Internet, la gran herramienta -- Educación interactiva -- Conclusiones