Class Distance Education.

Distance Education is a curricular unit in the 5th and penultimate semester of the course. Students are already familiar with university education and are preparing to contact professional life, namely in social solidarity institutions.

The use of distance learning environments is currently almost synonymous with online environments, using teaching and learning platforms. This unit aims to familiarize students with online distance learning models and practices. The generalization of online training, whether exclusive or complementary to face-to-face training, requires that graduates in education know these models and can explore some of their aspects in a practical way.

Fundamental concepts on distance education.

Creation and management of pages in LMS Moodle. Analysis of the characteristics of various items on Moodle pages.

Structured documents in Word and Google Docs.

Management of bibliographic references. Using Mendeley and Adobe Reader.

Planning of distance courses. SWOT techniques, GANTT schemes, hierarchical organization of topics, etc.

Use of synchronous environments (Zoom). Analysis of its characteristics.

Development of a distance course project, on a theme chosen by each student.

Preparation of didactic videos to support courses.

Preparation of structured lessons in Moodle.

Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data in Excel. Pivot tables.

Classes are always held in a laboratory with computers. Students are encouraged to use their laptops as well.

In class, in addition to structured presentations / explanations by the teacher, illustrating ideas, concepts and procedures, simultaneously with individual and whole-class explanations, students are required to make presentations and illustrations of procedures.

In part of the final classes is made the individual monitoring of projects of each student.

Conselho Nacional da Educação. (2020). Estado da Educação 2019 (Edição 2020). Conselho Nacional da Educação (CNE).

Figueira, Á., Figueira, C., & Santos, H. (2009). Moodle Criação e gestão de cursos online (versão Moodle 1.9). Lidel Edições Técnicas, Lda.

Mendes, A. Q., Bastos, G., Amante, L., Aires, L. L., & Cardoso, T. (2018). Modelo pedagógico virtual: Cenários de desenvolvimento. Universidade Aberta.

Pereira, A., Mendes, A. Q., Morgado, L., Amante, L., & Bidarra, J. (2007). Modelo pedagógico virtual da Universidade Aberta: Para uma universidade do futuro. Universidade Aberta.

Valadares, J. (2011). Teoria e praática de educação a distância. Universidade Aberta.