E-learning plataforms use and teaching and learning models in the European Higher Education Area

In this paper we show that the use of e-learning platforms in Spanish Higher Education is traditional and instructional. But mature teachers make frequent rich uses. They like to undertake dialogue processes in their teaching, and students are actively involved in the construction of knowledge. These uses are possibly linked to pedagogical wide conceptions, explicit and constructivist educational projects and ICT uses in their lives. They receive help from an institutional context pedagogically oriented. The study is implemented in eleven Spanish universities and about three thousand teachers, with various methods (questionnaire among them). It shows four groups with different practices. These practices differ in some identification data (field of knowledge where they work, teaching experience) and curriculum aspects, including communication tools, methodologies, grouping and evaluation practiced.