O design como mecanismo facilitador da aprendizagem na educação a distância

Abstract

From mail to online teaching, Distance Education has gained increasing importance and recognition in the educational universe and it has already called attention to new forms of knowledge construction through digital technologies. This fact can be noticed in the characteristics of the teaching material used in Distance Education courses today. This material came to be a composed of set of multimedia features that complement each other in order to enhance the assimilation of information and the appearance of new areas of knowledge amplification. In this context, this Master Thesis presents the importance of three thematic classes (learning strategies and prospects of interaction underlying the material, as well as the instructional design of the production process of these resources) for Distance Education students learning. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze how these themes of educational materials related to the mathematics subject of the undergraduate course in Pedagogy at UFPB Virtual contribute to the education of the involved students. Therefore, data were collected from the teachers, students and staff members who are responsible for material production, using semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and non-participant observation, focused on printed material, video classes and on learning objects. The technique of thematic content analysis (BARDIN, 2002) was employed on the categories and subcategories emerging from discourses of subjects involved in this research. The results show the importance of all three mentioned materials, with emphasis on printed material as a basis to support the education of the students, more specifically in the perspective of learning facilitators and not only as mere sources of information.