STUDY ON THE ADOPTION OFBLENDED LEARNING IN K-12

Abstract

This paper presents a bibliographical research on the application of the methodology and technologies of distance education in the context of presential basic education. This is one of the stages of research project on the application of bimodal education on basic education held at the professional master's in education at the Federal University of Lavras. Search engines adopted were the Capes periodical portal and Google Scholar, covering the period 2009-2014 for the terms Bimodal Education, Education Courses in Basic Education Association. It was observed that, internationally, there is a clear trend of research in this area, verified by the number of articles on this topic. However the current focus is on higher education (77%) and education (13%). In the context of basic education (K-12) the research represent only 8% of the total. As the Brazilian reality, it became clear there is no uniformity in terms of use to indicate the convergence of classroom and distance learning, a fact that complicates the standardization of key words to search. It was also observed conceptual errors with use, for example, the term Bimodal Education to discuss education distance learning courses with more frequent face meetings. As for publications in Brazil, the situation shown precarious because the number is low and the majority comes to teacher training courses in semipresential and not of bimodal education. Therefore, it is considered that there is a need to move forward with research in this area.