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The benefits of using ICTs in Higher Education: the teacher's perspective on E-Learning

This is an article through which we analyze projects that received the E-Learning Excellence Award of Porto University (Portugal), between 2004/2005 and 2010/2011, in order to understand which are the benefits that teachers assigned to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as devices of educational initiatives related to Higher Education. It is a study which concludes that this is a field affected by several kinds of tensions, misunderstandings and contradictions, which has more to do with conceptual and epistemological assumptions about pedagogical approaches in Higher Education today than properly with some specific reflection on the use of ICTs in that context, which is affected by how those approaches are built.

pedagogy in higher education; ICT; pedagogical innovation.


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