Material didático impresso para educação a distância : análise e percepção de estudantes do curso técnico em administração do IFPI

Abstract

Distance Education (DE) uses multiple Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to "bring" students together and motivate them, increasing their autonomy of study and promoting their meaningful learning. One of these ICT is Printed Didactic Material (PDM). This research was developed to evaluate the efficiency of PDM in Distance Education poles of the Instituto Federal do Piauí (IFPI). To do so, this case study, through a qualitative approach, used questionnaires, interviews, and documentary research to obtain pertinent information to answer the question: what is the perception of the students about the Printed Didactic Materials used in the Technical Course in Administration of IFPI In the context of the DE? The techniques of content analysis were applied, based on a theoretical platform composed of the following central points: Distance Education; Printed Material, e; Perception of the student / reader in order to achieve the proposed objectives. It was verified that the PDM gains strength among the students of the DE, in the face of the scenario of the majority of the municipalities of the interior of Piauí, characterized by the low quality in the provision of electric energy services, and the signal of the Internet, being so low, That some ICT lose their effectiveness when students need it most. Also note the economic reality of most of these students, who do not have access to digital technology tools. It should be emphasized that, in DE, one technology does not substitute another, but it is integrated, because it is the dialogue between different technologies that supports student learning. However, ICT, with all its attractiveness in media resources, loses strength in the face of a simpler but more accessible technology that is easy to use and independent of other resources for its use, which is PDM. Thus, with the main objective of analyzing students' perceptions about the PDM used in the reference course, a standard of answers was obtained in the analysis of the collected data, in which, the students ratify the importance and necessity to receive the PDM, As an essential tool in the teaching-learning process. However, they suggest that these didactic materials need to present content, contextualization, dialogic language and attractive design. As a result, a product was developed to support the development of policies and actions for PDM production, which seek to meet the needs and desires of these students for an effective teaching-learning process, whether in the distance or face-to-face mode. The PDM produced for DE, for all its specificities, represents a significant tool in the teaching-learning process, regardless of the modality of education that may be used.