Abstract
University is facing big challenges related to open and lifelong learning and must think about how to adapt to technological changes, turning into an integrated and blended environment in which attendance and distance, methodology and contents, individual and collaborative learning may coexist and improve the opportunities for each student to take part actively in the learning process. In order to rise to these challenges, the University of Bolzano is working to develop a method of “blended learning”, which I like to define as an “extended learning context” in which technology is used as an opportunity both to give a flexible and open access to students who are usually cut out from the learning process for different reasons, and to offer participatory learning opportunities, which are necessary to fulfil a co-constructive dimension of knowledge.