Avaliação de ambiente virtual de aprendizagem na modalidade semipresencial no ensino de graduação em odontologia da UFC

• Autor(a) principal: Jorge, Lidiane da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/7052
• topic: Avaliação Educacional; Educação a Distância

The use of virtual learning environments proposes an adaptation of educational methodologies and has become increasingly common recently in Brazil. The objective of this research was to evaluate the Virtual Learning Environment SOLAR program according to the perception of the graduate students of the Dentistry course at UFC – Federal University of Ceará. The participants were 94 students egress in the disciplines of Scientific Methodology applied to Dentistry I (1st semester), Public Health II (6th semester), Forensic Dentistry (7th semester), offered in the period 2012.1. A questionnaire was used as an instrument of data collection, whose information was organized in a database in Epi Info and analyzed using Stata 11. The study was approved by the Ethics in Research Protocol N º 44/12. It was found that 42.4% of the students took courses in attendance, while only 2.1% said they had done courses in blended. Approximately 98% of respondents reported that was their first undergraduate dental experience with semipresential disciplines, specifically with the use of SOLAR and 89,3% of students stated that the SOLAR favored the teaching-learning process. Also it can be argued that 98.9% of students have studied computer to carry out the activities of the subjects in this mode, however approximately 64% stated that this computer is not for individual use. The forum was considered the interaction tool most used by students in the semi presential disciplines and digital tools that contributed most in the learning process were the handouts with 41.5%, followed by the discussion forum with 31.9% and the portfolio with 19.1%. Using the SOLAR graduation program, the semi presential disciplines brought benefits to the teaching and learning process, because as facilitated the construction of knowledge through the tools of interaction and communication, contributing in the development of learner autonomy.