Mídias educacionais: cursos EaD como ferramentas de democratização do ensino de qualificação profissional do bombeiro militar

Abstract

The proposed work has addressed an important issue relating the educational urgencies of the globalized world, the provision of distance learning courses and the importance of educational media in this context of democratization of education. The qualification of contemporary professionals is enhanced with the new possibilities of distance learning education, combining time and professional qualification. With the proposal to institutionalize, in RS the Fire Department, internal qualification courses in distance education mode, if a preliminary investigation of the feasibility of this new teaching suggestion to the effective current is required. The proposal aimed to investigate quantitatively, the Military Firefighters professionals from Santa Maria about the interactivity developed by them with the EAD system of education and the use of educational media. Thus, the information obtained served as a source to determine how many professionals have had some type of distance education course, what type of course, the existing interactivity with educational media, their difficulties and anxieties.