A comunicação em ambientes digitais de aprendizagem: apropriações, interações e práticas desenvolvidas no Moodle para a educação a distância

Abstract

Distance Education brings renewed issues into the debate about the education-learning processes and the interaction between teachers and students. In a world more and more mediated by technologies, reflecting about a new one modus operandis of the mediatic channels put in service for an educational communication seems to be the academy’s task as way for it to rethink its own practices, at least as far as Distance Education is concerned. Therefore, a research is done with the objective of analyzing the communication processes in a digital learning environment and that are established between teachers and students in Undergraduate Programs Courses offered in a non-presencial modality. The case studied is the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), which utilizes the Moodle program as its platform to develop this education format. In order to get to the point of using and appropriating this environment, three classes were observed, followed by a method which was called an approach of use and appropria