Distance Education: Collective learnings on a trajectory

Abstract

In this study we present the results of a set of research action, carried through by a multispecialty team, who seeked to organize and configure mechanisms, tools, and methodologies for a differentiated education proposal, based in the web. As result, besides a methodology to prepare courses, a first version of a Learning Virtual Environment was structuralized and publicized. The objective was to make distance education experiences feasible, to be validated by the educators under formation themselves, carrying out the preparation and offer of undergraduate disciplines. Therefore, the teacher is capable of experiencing the logic inside the different technologies with their specific characteristics, e.g. synchronous (chats) or asynchronous (forums) tools of communication, that enable the characterization of the pedagogical dialog between pupils (male and female). Constructed on the basis of the democratic principles of a Communitarian Institution, that considers the development of knowledge as a collective construction based on dialog and cooperation, the accomplishment of this experience allows a glimpse the scenario of insertion of the different social actors in the proposals of Distance Education.