Abstract

SANTINELLO, Jamile; COSTA, Maria Luisa Furlan  and  SANTOS, Renata Oliveira dos. Virtualization in Higher Education: reflections on public policies and Blended Learning. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2020, vol.36, e76042.  Epub Nov 26, 2020. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.76042.

We live in an increasingly connected society, in which life seems to reveal itself through a mere click. Given this reality, we are inserted in a cyberculture, which is established through a digital culture and the virtualization of human relations. This new way of understanding society leads us to think about education and how public education policies are being constructed and applied as well, in relation to the Distance Education for Higher Education modality. Therefore, through legal documents from Brazilian education, we carry out a critical analysis involvingcyberculture, virtualization, cyberspace, public policies for Distance Education (DE) and blended learning. This aimed to understand how this virtualized society could ensure the insertion of digital technologies in daily life through the actions of the State, being propagated by innovative pedagogical methods and practices, such as the use of blended learning. In this work, we have found out that the use of this type of methodology is already being implemented in some higher education institutions, especially in private Higher Education Institution, which, through the structural and financial apparatus they have, quickly appropriate educational legislation, inserting a type of teaching and learning in their environment, which could be analyzed both by its innovative character as well as a possible instrument for a greater commodification of national Higher Education.

Keywords : Cyberculture and virtualization; Distance education; Cyberspace; Public Policies; Blended learning.

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