Teaching and Technology in Higher Education: The “Augmented Teaching” and the “Global Teacher”

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  • Marcelo Dorfsman
Keywords: Web-Blended Learning, Augmented Teaching, Global Teacher.

Abstract

This paper examines the influence of information and communication technologies on Higher Education. This study aims to identify the impact of the technological evolution on distance education programs and on designing, implementing and evaluating them, which significantly impact on the students. Our hypothesis is that technological evolution – from web 1.0 to web 2.0 – has become techno-pedagogical evolution. This is expressed in the design of a new form of distance education for Higher Education; a modality which we called “Web Blended-Learning” (WB-Learning), that overcomes the “Blended-Learning” (B-Learning). As a result of the analysis, we argue that on the one side, the emergence of new technological environments has helped to enrich and deepen the teaching programs, phenomenon we call “Augmented Teaching”. On the other side, we maintain that those environments challenge the teacher and set a new role, which we call “The Global Teacher”.

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Published
28-07-2015
How to Cite
Dorfsman, M. (2015). Teaching and Technology in Higher Education: The “Augmented Teaching” and the “Global Teacher”. Distance Education Journal, (39). Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/red/article/view/234231
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