To spread the learning of architecture: reasons and platforms

Abstract

The irruption of the multiple and interactive mass media has affected, without precedents, the way in which the knowledge is constructed. The aim of this article is reasoning and giving examples of how the new digital platforms of dissemination (web pages, intranets, wikis, blogs, social networks, moocs, audio-visual à la carte and on line), influence and modify the way in which we learn and, in consequence, in which way we should teach those contents in the universities. This article uses an empirical methodology, since it departs from the own educational experiences developed in different universities and matters that will serve us to exemplify some practices and formats on how to spread and to publish the materials and educational results in different means and supports.

The achievements derived from these formative experiences give reason of the predominant role that takes the incorporation of the dissemination in the teaching, since the public exhibition of the learned knowledge improves the critical judgment, it grants conscience to the student of what they have learned and offers them results to the judgment of the scientific community and also of the society in their set. The originality of the article is that it has analyzed and structured the principal changes that the new digital supports of spread content grant to the formative process. And finally, in how its publication is contributing both, architecture learning and education.