Emergent leadership: E-leadership implications for virtual education | del Valle García Carreño | Revista de Estudios para el Desarrollo Social de la Comunicación

The purpose of this study was to emphasize up its main objective
how new technologies can assist teachers. The use of information and
communication technology in educational settings in the future of
teaching is examined with regard to new functions and roles of teachers
in coming university distance scenarios. The specific case of the
virtual leader and mentor is studied. The article defines and explores
the relatively new leadership paradigm of e-leadership that has arisen
in little more than a decade. Special attention is given to the
following topics: The first section is to develop a theoretical
framework to improve understanding of this new form of work  related to
tutors, the leader and distributed leadership in the virtual
environment; also we review literature to build a comprehensive
understanding of what constitute e– leadership in organizations. The
second section discusses the main strengths and skills of the virtual
leader and their importance in the management of education at a
distance. We focus on delineating the dimensions of a typology to
characterize different types of virtual teams; the dimensions are then
used to draw leadership implications. Finally, the general research
question guiding this investigation was what will bring about real
progress and provide leadership to the virtual or distance learning?

E-leadership; Distributed Leadership; Distance and Virtual Education; Virtual team