Um estudo sobre quem é o professor que se disponibiliza participar de atividades de EAD

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Adriana Carvalho dos
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10057
• topic: História da educação no Brasil; Educação a distância; Capacitação de professores; Centro Universitario da Fundacao Educacional de Guaxupe -- Centro de Educacao a Distancia; Educacao -- Brasil -- Historia; Ensino a distancia; Professores -- Formacao profissional -- Brasil -- Historia; Brazilian education history; Distance education; Professors training; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The objective of this work was to study the features of professors interested in participating in Distance Education (DE) courses. The research was carried out as part of a training process to prepare these professors to develop didactic material and to function as tutors in DE courses. A group of 18 (eighteen) professors of several knowledge areas was involved in this process. They were part of the academic staff of Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional Guaxupé UNIFEG. The purpose of the study was to evaluate these professors relation with technology, either because they knew about it as part of their undergraduate training or they are using it in their actual practice, and how they act when facing with the challenge of working with DE activities. The use of technologies, especially computers, is always a challenge in the educational field. Many times the theories prevail in the training process. When faced with the need to use technology in the school environment, professors who have not attended training courses related to the use of technology, almost always feel the need to acquire these theoretical concepts. With the growth of DE, it is unavoidable that these professors will have to appropriate these DE concepts and practices. This work describes the phases of the training process that was carried out, which was based on theories related to DE. Several important abilities were required of these professors who did not always identify with these skills. Thus, the work has contributed to identifying several expectations, doubts and difficulties presented by the professors during the training process. The results show that it was possible to identify some features related to the professors performance, although it was not possible to trace precisely their profile. The group of professors was very heterogeneous with respect to: basic computer knowledge, capacity to use technologies in education, creativity, beliefs, commitment and interest. Thus, this complexity of variables (features) made it impossible to trace the professors profile while engaged in DE practices