Innovation and technological application in the field of higher education. The use of blogs in Spanish Universities.

Abstract

The University is immersed in a scenario of change in which new teaching formulas in technology and multimedia content will be the main allies. Traditional institutions of higher education, face-to-face or online, reset their distribution and communication systems. They go from being the center of educational communication star to form simple knots of a network of networks, inside the great cyberspace, where the student/user is moving in a more flexible coordinate. In the same way, originated in these coordinates new space-temporal changes bring with them the emergence of different teaching organizations, which are consortia or networks of institutions and whose education systems are characterized by modularity and interconnection. All this requires universities easing in its usual procedures and its administrative structure, to be able to adapt to alternative forms of training more in line with the needs presented by this new partnership. Now, the implementation platforms blogs and other technological resources, contribute to the improvement of teaching quality and, therefore, to suitable training of students. As a continuation of the innovation technology, likely to be adopted at the University level, there are blogs as a channel, tool or resource of information and communication, whose use has become the technological revolution which marks the beginning of the so-called Web 2.0.