NEW MODELS OF LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

In most of the universities we can find a special department or unit to support the development of digital contents for learning. This trend has grown with the success of the ICT at the end of the nineties, the popularity of Internet as a communication tool and the fascinating online services for global publication and searching engines. Initially, the distance learning teaching was adopting this new model, but nowadays, it has a widespread use in most of Higher Education Institution to support and enhance the face-to-face methodologies with the support of ICT. This paper shows some issues regarding the inclusion of technology on Higher Education Institutions and the role of these e-learning units on future trends.