Estudo e avaliação de educação à distância utilizando a tecnologia WWW / Study and evaluation of distance education using WWW technology

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1997

RESUMO

The purpose of the present work is the study and the application of evaluation mechanisms to highlight distance course strengths and weaknesses, allowing to control its quality and to accomplish improvements. They are also studied, the historical aspects of Distance Education (EAD), using several technologies; the structure of a system of EAD; the use of the Internet in this area; the technology WWW and its educational aspects and the evaluations of programs of EAD in international institutions. Evaluation mechanisms are adapted and applied in pilot test of a program of EAD - the ?Programa Educ@r?, - through Physics course offered in a public high school in Americana, State of São Paulo. Evaluation methods of distance course and data analysis, are suggested and applied during the period. Formative and final evaluations are administered through questionnaires answered by students, onsite teacher and distance teacher, whose results are, in the Likert scale between ?Good? and ?Very Good?, for the students and ?Average? and ?Very Good? for the teachers. The results of an evaluation of the instructorstraining course are also presented, conducted in the Center of Scientific and Cultural Divulgation in São Carlos, University of São Paulo. These results are in the Likert scale, between ?Good? and ?Very Good?.

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internet educação à distância www internet www teaching of physics ensino de física distance education

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