Abstract:
Values of freedom, openness and innovation of methods and techniques of teaching and learning are almost clichés in discourses about education these days, regardless of the space in which it occurs. To what extent, however, these changes really affect the deep structure and basic teaching practices pedagogical-didactic? We dedicate our study, presented here, to the forms of integration between the convening of uses and proposing new modes of existence, by modeling new opportunities for pedagogical-didactic use in Distance Education in higher education. We start and retake for this reflection especially verbal discourses of two free online courses that propose "changes" in the ways of teaching and learning. We realize that some values behind the practices analyzed are some positive values like: flexibility, informality, playfulness, immediacy, acceleration, among other normally claimed in modern speech said. It is for this (re) configuration of practices that subjects believe to adjust teaching to contemporary.
Key words:
Discourse; Pedagogical practices; Distance education