Teachers’ Strategies for a Multimodal Teaching Model in Higher Education

This article presents a case of a four-year experience of implementation of a higher education program for students in their first year of studies in the social sciences and humanities, one of the many programs offered by Universidad de la República (UDELAR) in its decentralization process. The program has been designed and implemented as a regional project, with a multimodal teaching model, which has developed on the basis of three components: face to face classes, videoconferencing and a Moodle platform. This paper provides an account of the action research cycle of CIOS proposal development, its implementation strategy and the process by which teachers got involved in the digital competency building endeavor required. It intends to provide a systematic account of this process experienced by this particular community of teachers, as they have gone through a technology appropriation process and they have engaged in ongoing course redesign.