A Proposal for Continuing Education Course for Online Teachers

• Autor(a) principal: da Costa, Natalia Xavier Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Vasconcellos, Roberta Flávia Ribeiro Rolando
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EAD em Foco
• Texto Completo: https://eademfoco.cecierj.edu.br/index.php/Revista/article/view/851

Although Distance Education is based on the physical distance between teacher and students, it replaces bidirectional with multidirectional logic and it requires rapid adaptation of students and teachers to use the technologies that are incorporated into this modality each day. In this case, it is highly necessary a professional able to mediate student and knowledge, in a differentiated and effective way: the online teacher. This paper presents an educational product developed during the professional master's degree course in Science. This is an Instructional Design resource in the form of an Activity Map for future elaboration of an Online Teaching Training Course. Using the methodological approach of action research, sixteen professors from Unigranrio University showed elements that contributed to develop the product as a form of intervention to improve work in DE. For data analysis and for the elaboration of the educational product proposed here, we have used content analysis from the perspective of Bardin (2011). Three online meetings were held with teachers in order to discuss and present proposals for the subject of continuing education, essential to the tutor's work. Through the product developed it was possible to visualize all the paths that should be followed by the online teacher, so that this professional can mediate, monitor and evaluate learning autonomously. The results showed that there are specific demands for the teacher's performance in distance education and the creation of continuing education courses for online teachers proved to be a relevant strategy to facilitate the understanding of the work performed by this professional.   Keywords: Online Teacher Training. Distance Education. Instructional Design.