Teaching and learning with e-Learning: «just another technological and modern utopia?!...»

Abstract

Every technical novelty brought new hopes for education. Nowadays we assist and we also felt a huge pressure for the use of e-Learning platforms. It is consensual that e-learning can introduce different ways to teach and learn because new approaches can be introduced within the educational context. But e-learning can only be such a new and different technological device… The virtual communities are important in this new educational because its very easy exchange information and data but their growth and maintenance will require from teachers and students new ways of working. Is it possible to argue that e-learning may promotes real «knowledge transaction» among the members of the virtual communities? This paper aims to reflect and discuss the main advantages and difficulties and limitations of e-learning in order to promote and adequate and efficient use under a strong pedagogical approach.