Dificuldades e oportunidades para o professor do ensino superior no uso do ambiente virtual de aprendizagem Moodle

Abstract

This study has established as its main objectives to identify the main pedagogical and technical difficulties in using the Moodle virtual learning environment for teachers of an institution of higher education and propose suggestions for actions to overcome the difficulties presented. The research was qualitative, being that the data were collected, at first, a questionnaire for twenty-five teachers, and a second time, by a semi-structured interviews with five teachers selected from the group home. To the analysis of the corpus, consisting of the responses of the questionnaire and the speech of teachers in semi-structured interview, was used the method of textual analysis of discourse. For the theoretical support of this work was used the social interactionist theory of Vygotsky and the main concepts of this theory were considered interaction, mediation and zone of proximal development. From the analysis of the corpus was possible to identify some difficulties in the use of Moodle for teachers to research and proposing actions to improve their skills, as well as actions of dissemination and awareness of the use of Moodle for teachers and students, well as challenging the teacher to reflect on the use of information and communication technologies in education. The results of this study indicate that the use of Moodle can trigger a change in educational practice of the teacher, leading him to a possible paradigm shift in order to change their epistemological and pedagogical design, changing the practice of directive teaching to a practice that promotes constructivist teaching.