The multimedia support in learning environments can be a facilitator element for changes in the epistemological conceptions on the part of educators and apprentices. This article consists in a case study. The corpus of analysis is composed by the statements of an apprentice that interacted in the virtual learning environment of a mandatory course in a Psychology undergraduate program. Piaget's theory of Equilibration and Maturana's Biology of Knowledge are the theories that support the analysis and that give support to the construction of the cognitive and autopoietic indications. The analysis shows how the subject interacts before the exchanges made in the different scenarios of the virtual environment. The autopoietic and cognitive indications show a process of learning supported by the interaction with the other and by the interaction with the object of knowledge itself. The subject's contributions indicate a movement of authorship and construction of knowledge, assuming a participative and responsible role in the exchanges realized with the other apprentices.
virtual learning environments; interaction; cognitive processes; autopoiesis; distance education