The Policy Approach of B-learning. The University Model of Education in the Public–Private Binomial

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to carry out a study of the relations of convergence-divergence established in the blended-learning programmes offered in the public sector (university institutions) and in the private sphere (training in organisations). The main thesis of this chapter is that, in a scenario of academic capitalism, the widespread promotion of virtual training policies and the growth of blended learning is giving rise to similarities between public and private systems, resignifying institutional structures and creating new formulas in approaches to training processes. The work establishes a policy framework from which to study the formal instrumentalisation that is being made of new learning approaches, introducing elements of analysis so far scarcely explored in the educational context. Aspects such as the professional functionality attributed to the university lecturer in this educational model and the implications of geoterritoriality in the dissemination of blended learning constitute essential patterns of study in an approach whose convergence between public and private organisations is building a new policy of university knowledge.