Blended Education in Higher Schools: New Networks and Mediators
Blended Education in Higher Schools: New Networks and Mediators
Author(s): Nikolay Tsankov, Veska Gyuviyska, Milena LevunlievaSubject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Library and Information Science, Education and training, Sociology, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Higher Education , History of Education, Educational Psychology, Social development, Management and complex organizations, Family and social welfare, Social Informatics, Economic development, Social Norms / Social Control, Globalization, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Sociology of Education, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: virtual reality of blended education; electronic and traditional; socio-technological network; human and non-human resources; mediations; mediators
Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a profile of blended education as a socio-technological network based on an analysis of their contexts of understanding in higher education. The empirical study conducted through the method of surveys with students and faculty members in departments of pedagogy in Bulgarian universities confirms the idea of blended education as a technology and as a world of mediation, as well as the concept of the changing role of mediators themselves. Still, it leaves the issue of its humanization open for discussion. It foregrounds the necessity of investment in forms of education in higher schools as a prototype of the socio-technological network.
Journal: Стратегии на образователната и научната политика
- Issue Year: 26/2018
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 231-245
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
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