Teaching and Learning with Technology : which university?


Abstract

The technological, socio-cultural and economic changes and the institutional development are forcing the Universities to rethink their teaching and learning strategies. Until a few years ago (in the presence of other conditions), these strategies were the most appropriate and, for this reason, the most widely used. In particular, technological developments are evidencing different effects in the transfer and construction of new knowledge. The authors reflect about the changes that affect the university in the rethinking their teaching model with the integration of ICT in ordinary teaching practices. Because, nowadays, students present new demands for training. The essay presents three main themes: the evolution of learning models; the modernization of higher education; the teaching profession who is looming in the renovated interactions space. The work ends with the proposal of a techno-social learning space that can integrate all the opportunities offered by new technologies through the exploitation of the interaction understood as a medium capable to unify all the resources (human and otherwise) who flock the "learning space".