New electronic mediation technologies challenge the players in the educational process and make it necessary to define the pedagogical model adopted. The aim of this study was to analyze discussion lists as a teaching and learning strategy for a semi-distant educational proposal. A discussion list was created within the discipline of Educational Practices of a health education specialization program. The core issues guiding the data analysis were the expectations, possibilities, difficulties and role of the discussion list within the teaching and learning process from the students' point of view. The difficulties were centered on the availability of internet access, inexperience, time management and lack of personal contact. Space-time facility, expansion of asynchronous communication channels and creation of a collaborative learning community were among the possibilities highlighted.
Educational technology; Discussion list; Teaching and learning strategies; Constructivism; Health education