Educação semipresencial no currículo de física: análise de uma proposta educacional na disciplina “Introdução à Ciência”

Abstract

This work analyzes an educational purpose for multimodal use of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle, offering 20% of non-contact classes, discipline "Introduction to Science " of graduate course - Degree in Physics of Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM). It tends to answer the following question: “How to integrate technological innovations and the use of multiple languages to offer a traditional face-to-face subject?” It aims to identify the forms of VLE use that the responsible teacher implemented and the possibilities of a based proposal in the teaching of multiple modalities, in order to identify its innovative potential. We used the case study as methodology, an intrinsic research that seeks to understand a particular case, doing an analysis of its data in qualitative approaches. It consists of an observation of the design, production and testing process of three non-contact classes, from the content prepared by the teacher, observation of face-to-face class after the application of the educational proposal, semi-structured interview with the teacher, focuses groups conducted with students and analysis of reports about the activities made in Moodle. We analyzed the results from three categories: innovations related to the traditional degree teaching, engagement of students in the study program and difficulties of the teacher and students to carry out the purpose. The results suggest the VLE facilitates introducing multiple languages in the study of a specific topic, encourages collaborative work and stimulates students to go beyond their comfort zone in the use of web 2.0 resources to produce content. The results also suggest that purposes like that challenges the student to prepare to have a distance-learning program, which requires overcoming habits of basic education as the activities done because they have a “specific score”. At the end of this study, we made an analysis in terms of technological infrastructure, human resources and necessary skills to implement the proposal in other disciplines and undergraduate courses of UFTM.