Tecnologia na educação, ensino a distância, e aprendizagem mediada pela tecnolgia

Abstract

In an introductory section, where conceptual and terminological issues are discussed, it is argued that the expression “Distance Teaching” is more adequate than the expressions “Distance Education”, "Distance Learning”, “Teleeducation” and 'Telelearning”, and should therefore be preferred. A contrast is then introduced and discussed between Distance Teaching and Technology-Mediated Learning. In the sequence, the main arguments for Distance Teaching are presented and a comparison of the relative merits of
Face-to-Face Teaching and Distance Teaching is made. A criticism of educational models centered on teaching (face-to-face or remote) is then made in order to prepare the way for the argument that education, in the future, will have to be centered on the leamer, not on the teacher, on learning processes, not on teaching methods, on “pull” more than on “push”, and that it will be inevitably technology-mediated. It is finally argued that the school, created, as it was, to produce standardized output (basically identical and interchangeable students), is iII-equipped to help rather diverse student populations in a personalized and individualized mariner, as is necessary in our culture today. Its role may be occupied by rich learning environments that will inevitably make use of networked resources and computer-mediated communications. It is so suggested that Technology-Mediated Learning is a more adequate strategy in
this context than Distance Teaching.