Evaluation and emerging scenarios in Blended e-Learning

The evolution of blended e-learning it is influenced by the more general evolution of the field of education. Education systems in Europe - in a time of economic suffering and welfare crisis - must now face difficult challenges: they need to maintain high quality while they containing costs; they need to improve the design of the educational system and educational routes; enlarge the mission of lifelong learning systems to cooperation with business and to communication and dissemination of scientific knowledge; There is a need to answer, in the not Anglophone Europe, to the American and English massive offer of online education; there is the need to meet the demand for more vocational training and related to the profession; and there is a need to meet the demand for quality assurance and customization and flexibility in building individual learning pathways For this combination of problems, the development of learning and of courses in blended e-learning it is strategic, as it allows: - To incorporate updated contents of research or collaborative tools with communities of research or research / action, and user generated contents; - To reuse such contents and experiences for flexible reorganisation of educational systems; - To reuse such contents and experiences for the Life Long Learning and the dissemination; - To create systems, contents and multilingual services, suitable for non-English speaking Europe - To meet the demand for vocational training based on “learning by doing” - To better respond to the requirements and practices of quality assessment - To respond to the increase of the skills of digital natives without sacrificing the dialogue between generations.