New teaching environments for students of the 21st century

contributions from the teaching experience

Abstract

Currently, teaching and learning in information science are a permanent challenge. The continuous changes that occur in the area of information require updating and dynamic training of information professionals. In this sense, it is necessary to reflect on teaching practices and on the tools available to carry them out, especially in terms of educational technologies. This work intends to present the experience of the Planning curricular unit in the area of information, of the careers Degree in Archival Science and Degree in Library Science of the Faculty of Information and Communication-Udelar, Uruguay. The pedagogical and didactic strategies that are used in the development of the course are presented to integrate the theoretical-practical, individual-group and face-to-face-virtual work. Some of the challenges that result from the teaching exercise for the implementation of the virtual learning environment as an extended classroom are raised. In the final considerations, we reflect on the existing counterpoint between the structure given to the course and the topics addressed and how this impacts learning in a dialogical sense.