IPM Task : Planejamento e controle da produção de cursos a distância através de uma ferramenta de gestão

Abstract

Technological advances contribute to new perspectives for distance learning (DL) with support for several learning formats. Thus, producing DL courses requires new competences and a productive environment towards material and content diversification that meet the target audience. At this perspective, this dissertation aims to create a management tool a planning and control resource of DL course production, named IPM Task. By an exploratory mode, it was sought to propose a tool that would contribute to the DL management routine. The features suggested at this management tool, IPM Task, were the result of questionnaire application for several DL managers in Brazil, besides the analysis of a theoretical framework which would ground the proposed system and its models. The central hypothesis of this study was to propose the IPM Task, aiming that managers could make more accurate decisions through online information about their projects and routine, as well as optimize their planning through templates of DL systemic models. After analyzing the cases of use, applicable to the IPM Task system, it was concluded that this management information system can not only contribute to DL management, but also optimize the planning of projects through pre-set templates based on systemic and pedagogical models.