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George Alex Fernandes Gomes
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The serious methodological and conceptual changes and the
rapidly increasing speed of information flow within the past fifty
years show that the phenomenon of globalization is an effect of
complexity theory in our society.
This paradigm has also proved the complex and adaptive nature
of the teaching and learning, which no longer believes that this
process takes place by the types and amounts of information
involved, but the actions that are established between them.
In way to this turmoil of concepts, the use of information
technology and communication in education has allowed the
creation of networks for teaching and collaborative learning,
distributed in time and space, where the roles played by teacher
and students not more can be fixed by traditional educational
models.
Students no longer have the teacher as the only source of
knowledge and imposes its own pace of learning. They want to
exploit the knowledge, and not just absorb what is presented to