This article characterizes the meaning and scope of a research university and its implications in the teaching role: research training, the use of electronic tools and the application in the orientation of learning. The comprehensive interpretive paradigm was used, with a qualitative approach, based on a case study among the teachers of the Nueva Granada Military University. The importance of a generation of suitable academics emerges, demanding innovation, openness in their approaches and practices, fundamental aspects in the orientation of student learning with the use of electronic tools. It is concluded that the teacher's research training, the suitability and use of Information and Communication Technologies, Learning and Knowledge Technologies in their daily work, generates competences to the teacher that are easily transmitted to their learner through virtual environments. Learning.