Autor(es):
Valadares, Jorge 
Data: 2007
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/1240
Origem: Repositório Aberto da Universidade Aberta
Assunto(s): Distance teaching and face-to-face teaching; Learning environments; Constructivist and investigative learning environments; Cooperative work; Metacognition
Descrição
Comunicação apresentada na "EADTU's 20th Anniversary Conference". Lisboa, 8 e 9 de Novembro 2007. This communication respects to an important theme either in face-to-face teaching or in distance
teaching: the learning environments.
In a first part it is described the history of the learning environments' research, highlighting the
lines at international level in this field.
In a second part of this communication we seek, based on diverse studies (Cunningham, Duffy
and Knuth, 1993, Jonassen, 1994, Savery & Duffy, 1995, Jonassen and Tessmer, 1996, Brooks
and Brooks, 1993, 1999, etc.) and on the works developed by a group of researchers, including
the author of this communication, to define the so called constructivist and investigative learning
environments and discuss its main general characteristics, with particular emphasis to the
cooperative work, multiple representations, pedagogical relationships, metacognition and some
others aspects that are underlying to its implementation.
In the third and last part it is highlighted the fundamental importance that these environments have in the online teaching when we intend to have a social presence, a cognitive presence and
a teaching presence (Garrison & Anderson, 2003).
