Transposing Blended to Remote Learning: Experience Report in a Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes-Santos, Caroline
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Medeiros, Renata Frauches, Rocha, Gabrielle de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EAD em Foco
• Texto Completo: https://eademfoco.cecierj.edu.br/index.php/Revista/article/view/1298

“Experimental Models of Cardiometabolic Diseases” is an optative blendeddiscipline that has been offered during the last three years by theGraduate Program in Cardiovascular Science at the Universidade FederalFluminense. The purpose of this article is to describe and discuss theplanning, strategies, and tools chosen to adapt the discipline to onlinelearning in the period of social isolation imposed by the pandemic of thenew coronavirus. The tools chosen were Google Meet® for synchronousactivities and the learning management system (LMS) EDMODO® forcommunicating with students and providing educational resources andtasks. Forums, tasks, simulated jury, and seminar were held. Studentsalso had access to instructional videos about the LMS and an online folderwith papers for studying. All students were able to interact in the LMS.Each forum lasted one week, and there was an intense conversationduring both the first and last two days. In the simulated jury, the studentsreported that they had studied for the activity and liked the proposal.Regarding the interactivity of the asynchronous seminar, it mainly occurrednear to the end of the established deadline. The course evaluation formshowed great acceptance of the proposed activities. Overall, theadaptation of the discipline for online learning was effective, both in thestudent’s and teacher’s view. There was the active participation ofstudents, who evaluated as positive the discipline format, recommendingits maintenance. Keywords: Online education. Information and communication digital technology. Educational technology. Postgraduate studies. Healthteaching.