A contribuição da narrativa transmídia para educação a distância

Abstract

This study aims to answer the following general research question: to what extent the concept of transmedia can contribute to the organization of materials in Virtual Learning Environments? In the end, we seek to answer, throughout the work,questions dismembered the general question: when considering a LMS a digital genre, which aspects should be analyzed to understand its macrostructure? How to characterize the logic of transmedia storytelling? How to organize a Lesson Plan for Distance Learning from the logic oftransmedia storytelling? The research methodology includes the following steps: a) research bibliography on a) Cyberculture, taking as the theoretical reasoning the authors Lévy (1999), Santaella (2004); b) Transmedia Storytelling, Jenkins (2009) as author – based; c) Digital Genre, based on Marcuschi and Xavier (2004), Marcus chi (2008) and Marcuschi (2005); b) structured non-participant observation performed during 14 lessons to meet the LMS Moodle, the participants and the interactions that occur there; c) action research, to develop and implement an educational plan for six classes and, subsequently, to rework the lesson plan, taking as a basis the principles for the logic of transmedia narrative founded in Jenkins (2009b) and the most general principles of preparation of materials for virtual environments of Lopes and Alves (2011), as well as the recommendations of Laurel (2001).