A Convergência como tendência para a educação do presenteConvergence as a trend for the education of the present

Este artigo objetiva apresentar sinteticamente os argumentos apresentados em tese de doutoramento, que pretendeu compreender as possibilidades da convergencia para o ensino superior. Os sentidos da convergencia foram construidos a partir de ideias das areas da comunicacao, da informatica e das artes. O estudo foi realizado a partir de a analise documental e estado da arte, em que evidenciou-se que a convergencia, antes de mais, e social. Ela se faz nas relacoes criadas em rede e mediadas por Tecnologias Digitais da Informacao e da Comunicacao (TDIC) e ampliam os paradigmas educacionais, os locais de ensinar e aprender, as relacoes entre os sujeitos — professores e estudantes. Deste modo, a convergencia se verifica como uma tendencia para a educacao do presente. Convergence as a trend for the education of the present This article aims to summarize the arguments presented in a doctoral thesis, which sought to understand the possibilities of convergence for higher education. The meanings of convergence were built on ideas from the areas of communication, information technology and the arts. The study was carried out from the documentary analysis and state of the art, in which it was shown that convergence, above all, is social. It is done in relationships created in networks and mediated by Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (TDIC) and broaden the educational paradigms, the places of teaching and learning, the relations between the subjects - teachers and students. In this way, convergence is seen as a tendency for the education of the present. Keywords: convergence in education, higher education, digital information and communication technologies