Education is a social practice historically placed and goes beyond all human activity, spreading to the network of relations that takes place in the social fabric, mediated or not by some kind of technology. Online education -- that is, computer mediated communication -- for educational purposes carries with it questions relative to its teaching and the overall nature of online learning. Online education constitutes a new professional configuration, a possibility of the effective use of teaching and the effective construction of knowledge from another spatial-temporal logic, without losing sight of the objective conditions of social networks, in particular new forms of social connections brought out by wider social changes, strongly marked by a technological presence.
['António Eduardo Martins', 'Felipa Lopes dos Reis']
Virtual teaching in a society of learning