Distance Education and digital technologies: what's "new"?

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Glaucia da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Scherer, Suely
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Teoria e Prática da Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/TeorPratEduc/article/view/23764
• topic: Distance Education; Digital Technologies; Communication Processes; Handouts; Educação a Distância; Tecnologias Digitais; Processos de Comunicação; Material Didático

In this paper we sought to answer the following question: the use of digital technologies in distance educationhas enabled new processes of synchronous and asynchronous communication between individuals (teachers,tutors and other students) and new forms of provision and use of teaching materials? To answer this questionwe analyzed the papers approved subject area AT5 - Innovation TDIC to EAD, the IX Brazilian Congress ofHigher Education Distance (ESUD). This event is a periodic Association of University Network (UniRede),whose theme was the 2012 edition, "Distance Education: Sowing Citizenship." The choice to analyze thesearticles is because being a recent event in which the main "news" area of research could / should be presented.From the analysis reached the conclusion that there are attempts shy of initiatives and use of digitaltechnologies in communication processes and forms of provision and use of materials, but these are notinnovative methodological point of view. These initiatives and attempts do not occur in collective spaces ofdiscussion in a continuous dialogue between teachers, tutors, managers and students in distance educationcourses. Therefore it is necessary that there be more investment in research, experimentation anddevelopment of innovative projects that promote the use of digital technologies in communication processes,usage and availability of teaching materials, based on communicative actions.