TICs e acessibilidade na EaD: investigativa com tutores e docentes

Abstract

The current investigation aimed to understand if tutors and professors who act in the Distance Learning (DL) feel prepared to proportionate the accessibility of academic students with disabilities. In the contemporary context, the DL has assumed new challenges such as the educational inclusion of academic students with disabilities in the distance courses. From students’ accessing, has emerged questions about the operationalization of this process and if the tutors and the professors feel themselves prepared for this new reality. By the data collection method, it aimed to understand if there is relevance to the implementation of a support service to the working group. Likewise, it intended to verify demands and intervention possibilities along with the working team. In the end of the data analysis, it was possible to map the demands and the interests of the working group. This research is characterized as a qualitative study, as a case study. For the data collection, the participants were invested by e-mail to answer an on-line survey available on Google Docs. From the answers and the data analysis, it has been understood that the majority perceives the complexity of this process and signalize the importance of a continuing education about the subject. The research allowed mapping the demands and the interests of the team group, a material that will be the base of a future performance of formation with the group.