Panorama de mídias utilizadas na educação a distância no município de Santa Cruz do Sul - RS

Abstract

The main innovation of the last decades in the educational area was the creation, implantation and improvement of Distance Education, educational modality where teaching is made through different technological resources, what allows to teachers and students to develop educational activities in different places and time. The objective of this research is to study this resources and try to establish, through the application of questionnaires, a panorama of the different medias used in distance university courses at Santa Cruz do Sul City (RS). The questionnaires, that had objective and discursive questions, were answered by the EAD managers of the universitary institutions that offer distance courses in this city (there were answered three questionnaires, one in each institution). At the distance courses offered by the Santa Cruz do Sul (RS) institutions was observed the use of different combined medias in a same course, in special the printed material, internet and the audiovisual media. During the research, the different medias were characterized, and by this characterization with the answers of the questionnaires, it is emphasized the importance of an appropriate and planned choice of the medias for distance courses, especially because the quality of a distance course is given by the medias and pedagogic processes adopted in teaching and learning.