"BLENDED LEARNING" AND EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION FOR THE ADAPTATION TO THE EUROPEAN SPACE OF HIGHER EDUCATION OF CONTENTS RELATED TO TEACHING SCIENCES OF THE NATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF JAEN

In this work, we describe an experience carried out for the subject "Conocimiento del Medio Natural y su Didactica", that is given in the University of Jaen, with the aim to join some aspects referred to the formative demands associated with the renovation of the educational methodologies that European Space of Higher Education (E. S. H. E.) proposes, and the contributions that the use of the new technologies related to the information and communication (I. C. T.) could have, so that it promoted and make easier an effective learning of the contents related to the sciences of the nature in students of Preservice Teacher Degree. We show the use of some tools related with I. C. T. -as computer networks or digitized platforms - that university teachers have for the development of their teaching work, in agreement with the change of paradigm that supposes the implementation of the aims proposed in the Bologna Declaration, so that there takes place a significant learning of the contents worked by the students in a autonomous way - but directed by the teacher-by means of the integration, in the cognitive structures of this students, of the new knowledge acquired during the process of learning and teaching.