Marilú Fontoura de Medeiros

Virtual learning environments: the challenge of new outlines in the creative production of knowledge

The actual paper is about the challenge of investigating how a large Brazilian University may set up virtual fields in its teaching-learning processes, seeking to spot its impact on socially constructed practices as they are built within PUCRS VIRTUAL. Analysis of such practice is carried out at two major levels i.e. (1) teacher skill development accounting for the epistemology of the actual-virtual in its singularity as well as (2) the networks operating passages in the construction of the paradigm that instigates our practice. In short, these endeavors promoted by teachers seek to install guarantee heterogenesis processes that are also multiple as learning spaces. These are autonomization processes, of difference, of creation.