Higher education teacher training: The challenge of rethinking teaching in the context of technologies and blended learning

Abstract

The contemporary social demands indicate the need of rethinking the educational process from systemic, integrated and multidisciplinary approaches considering the possibilities of communication and information technologies as pedagogical tools. In this way, this article presents considerations and reflections about teacher formation in the technological context. It discusses the actions and adaptations of this movement considering the appropriation process and the implantation of the semipresential modality in the graduation courses. It describes and analyses the proposal of a seminar for teacher formation in the higher education field of action that aims at qualifying them to use the computerized learning environment offered in the semipresential modality. It highlights some guides that emerge from the analysis of this process of formation and implantation of subjects in this modality.

Keywords: teacher training, information and communication technologies, blended learning, computerized learning environment, higher education.