Digital technologies and their impact on Higher Education. The new mediations

• Main Author: Juan de Pablos Pons
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Iberoamericana de Educación Superior y a Distancia (AIESAD) 2018-03-01
• Series: RIED: Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia
• Subjects: Universidad; Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC); Enseñanza virtual; Mediación tecnológica; Gestión de instituciones.
• Online Access: http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ried/article/view/20733

This work proposes a reflection on the evolution of media in the digital age, requires us to advance in knowledge about mediation and remediation processes, favored by technologies, differentiating them from those generated so far by traditional analogue media (printed book, film, television). Digitization has given rise to new realities and proposals, such as video games, social networks or augmented reality applications. The next step in our media culture is the multiplication and continuous diversification of formats, but also new forms of mediated interaction. The mediation processes generated contribute to the modification of communication models and teaching methods. And this has an impact on educational institutions, and also on higher education. As a contribution to its analysis, the concept of technological remediation is provided and defined. The new information and communication technologies (ICT) represent, under the considerations formulated here, an opportunity for change some forms and procedures of main areas of the higher education: teaching, research and management. Being proactive in this new reality is relevant, since the adaptation effort is linked to the survival of the university itself.