Bioética, construção de conhecimento e e-learning: novos desafios ao ensino da Bioética / Bioethics, knowledge construction and e-learning: new challenges to the Bioethics teaching

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

09/12/2011

RESUMO

The Bioethics discipline is offered to the undergraduates of FOUSP in the first semester of the first term. Certainly, the reflexion about ethical dilemmas does not finish with the end of the Bioethics discipline, so, in the attempt of helping the student in the reflexion about dilemmas that may come to be faced after having attended to the Bioethics discipline, it was planned the development of a didactic material, with no cost to the students, of easy access. So that the student could review the content studied in the Bioethics discipline during the whole period of the undergraduation course. At the present time, the use of computing, of its new electronic tools and the decrease in the cost for the acquisition computers have being favoring the development of virtual learning environments in the education area. Therefore, the main objective of this paper was to develop some content for the electronic didactic material of Bioethics, in order to be used as a support material in the teaching-learning process by the undergraduate students of FOUSP. The texts elaborated about each theme presented to the students were formatted in electronic pages using the programs FlashPageFlip and Photoshop CS4. The material produced was made available to the students in the platform Moodle. As the information about each theme does not become exhausted in the text elaborated for this support study material, at end of the text of each theme there are indications of other references. These indications allow the student to increase the knowledge map initially outlined by the teacher according to his/her necessity. It was sought to contextualize each subject, identify the main ethical issues involved and the different arguments, the values involved and the possible conflicts among them. A semi-structured questionnaire was used in the first evaluation. 140 students were invited to participate of the research and 62.85% answered to the questionnaire. The results were evaluated through a simple statistical calculation and the open questions were used to receive suggestions from the users for possible future improvements. We concluded that even with all the advantages that the virtual resources can offer to the teaching of Bioethics, such resources are still not capable of substituting the main element of the teaching, the experience with the other. The experiences will only be able to be transformed in human experiences when we attribute them a meaning based on value judgments. The material produced was considered satisfactory by the students in the support in the studies of bioethics themes. Among the suggestions of improvement is the possibility of a higher interaction between the teacher and the student enabled by the networks.

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bioethics bioética computers dentistry ensino informática odontologia teaching

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