Atividades online na educação a distância : da análise dos principais softwares existentes ao desenvolvimento da ferramenta macaxeiras

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop an online tool that provides teachers with the construction of interactive school activities. Through an educational and digital environment for learning in Distance Education (DE). For the construction of this tool some phases were necessary. The first one was to analyze the uncertainties of the teachers regarding the use of this type of tool and second was to analyze the existing tools in the market. Only after these two initial phases can get a notion of operation and expectations of teachers about these tools that help teachers in the construction of online activities. In addition to the Tool, a user guide was proposed, which will help the teacher in his first steps in creating online activities using the tool proposed here. For that, a descriptive and bibliographical research was carried out, since it makes use of already elaborated materials like books, magazines and scientific articles. The approach of the data collection treatment of the bibliographic research will be qualitative, as it seeks a direct source for data collection, interpretation of phenomena and attribution of meanings. The research was divided into three parts in order to systematize the work of the researcher. The first part refers to the field research with elaboration of questionnaires and data collection. In this phase we also analyzed the similar softwares to what will be produced as a product of this research. The second part was characterized by the construction of the Software Macaxeiras, an online tool that will assist teachers and students of Distance Education of the Federal Institute of Piauí, with the production of interactive activities. Finally, we had the validation tests of the tool built in educational environments such as Moodle. Based on data analysis, it was possible to perceive that the software available to teachers of distance education don’t meet the basic prerequisites to ensure a clear and effective teaching process. Regarding the analyzed software, the ones that are closest to all the criteria launched by this research are paid and the free ones don’t suit to the learning object standards. The results highlight the behavior of teachers regarding the use of these applications and express the desire to work with a tool that is closer to their realities and that is created specifically for DE, since the current ones were not created for this purpose. The challenge of this research is to make the Macaxeiras tool meets the perspective of these teachers.