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The study focuses on the use of information and communication technologies in professional military education, delimited to the present moment and to the current professors and students of the Portuguese Armed Forces Military University Institute. This study aims to analyse the relationship between ICT and teaching–learning methodologies in the context of professional military education, with emphasis on the concept of innovation in the classroom, on teaching–learning styles and on the role of ICTs in learning. The study is based on a mixed research strategy combining deductive and inductive approaches, materialized in a case study, with data collected through questionnaires, interviews and documentary analysis. This article focuses on the conceptual framework and its interconnection with the methodological strategy for the empirical study. The results presented refer to the pilot validation test of the data collection instruments and indicate that, in general, students and teachers share the same teaching–learning styles, both students and teachers show a good propensity to use ICT in the classroom and an almost complete substitution of traditional lessons, lectures and conferences by distance learning with a face-to-face approach in the discussion of case studies is possible.
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The traditional classroom concept presents it as a space, usually a room of variable dimensions, with environmental, dispositional, work and study conditions, where the formal teaching–learning process takes place, whose development dates back to the century with the democratization of access to education [1]. The “Classroom” concept of the future was created in 2011 under the iTEC Project under the coordination of the European Schoolnet, with the purpose of designing a new proposal of organization of classroom space and practices, by harmonious conjugation of three key elements: space, technology and pedagogy [2].
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Concept introduced by US Army War College to describe the multilateral world resulting from the end of the Cold War: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous.
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Lesson/Lesson-Debate; directed discussion/learning discussion/topic discussion; individual application work/application work group; CPX/CAX computer assisted; field exercises; field trip; seminar/panel/symposium; workshop; lecture/ conference/cycle of conferences; presentation and defence of work.
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Digital Book; ongoing training online; gamification; project-based learning (PBL); case study; team-based learning (TBL); flipped classroom; coding; virtual reality; computer-based training (CBT); augmented reality; learn from anywhere/teach from anywhere mobile devices.
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Loureiro, N.A.R.S., dos Santos, L.A.B. (2020). Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Classroom: An Exploratory Study in Professional Military Education. In: Rocha, Á., Pereira, R. (eds) Developments and Advances in Defense and Security. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 152. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9155-2_36
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