Title:	DEVELOPING A BLENDED LEARNING STRATEGY: PEDAGOGICAL PARADIGM SHIFT
Author(s):	António Moreira, Angélica Monteiro
ISBN:	978-972-8939-17-5
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson
Year:	2010
Edition:	Vol. II
Keywords:	Pedagogical paradigm; blended learning; formation of professors.
Type:	Reflection Paper
First Page:	239
Last Page:	242
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	In a scenario of deep social, economic and cultural changes as well as of quick evolution of the information and communication technologies, we see ourselves before the growing need to provide more and better opportunities to the educative community. Many national educational institutions are trying to deal with this challenge by developing distance-education programs specially focused on the learning end of the process, thus fulfilling a main proposition of the Bologna Process. This new way of building a teaching system based upon skill development while meeting the given learning goals is making teachers rethink the pedagogical paradigm, as the whole process is student-oriented and assumes the existence of a dynamic curriculum, always under construction and opened for critical considerations. The purpose of this paper is to describe its authors’ experience in what relates to the expected impact of these learning management systems – otherwise known as learning platforms – on the referred paradigm shift. During the time spent with this task, which began in the 2006/2007 school year, the authors verified that the creation of virtual learning areas and communities which may be complementary to the presential education is very important to the promotion and reinforcement of the interactions students/teachers and students/students, to the collaborative strategies and sharing of knowledge, with resource to ways and means able to stimulate students to process the acquired information in an autonomous and significant fashion, taking into account each individual learning style and rhythm.
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