Technical and technological institutes in Ecuador are immersed in a deep process of transformation, and the use of virtual teaching - learning is one of the agents of change; however, in practice a contradiction between them and the didactic concept and its specific use in the dynamics of this process in the intensive classroom course is appreciated. These issues generated the need to improve the teaching process - learning with the use of virtual environments, which guided the development of a doctoral research to the study of this particular. Regarding methodological argument teaching the learning task in the virtual environment in the intensive classroom course - why in this article some theoretical considerations are offered.