Banca de DEFESA: MANUELA PEREIRA GOMES

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STUDENT : MANUELA PEREIRA GOMES
DATE: 31/08/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: EspaçoTec
TITLE:

The usability of Blackboard from the perspective of executing teachers in Distance Learning

KEY WORDS:

Evaluation, Usability, Executing Teacher, Blackboard, VLE's

PAGES: 130
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

Distance Education (EAD) has become one of the main teaching modalities in recent years, providing accessible and flexible learning opportunities for students from different parts of the world. It is known that educational software plays a key role in supporting the teaching and learning process. With this, it is necessary to evaluate these resources, becoming an essential action to ensure that they meet educational objectives and offer an effective and enriching learning experience. Evaluating educational software is a vital component of successful E-learning. With this evaluation and analysis of the usability of the VLE, it will allow the executing professor of a certain institution of higher education in Recife to select the right tools that best align with the educational objectives, the needs of the students and the context of the courses. With that, the research question arises: What are the perceptions of the executing teachers in relation to the usability of the virtual learning environment “Blackboard”? This investigation has the general objective: to analyze the perception of the executing teacher in relation to the usability of the virtual learning environment “Blackboard”. This is a qualitative research, as a case study. As a data collection instrument, two online questionnaires were applied to the 18 executing teachers of a higher education institution in the city of Recife/PE. For data construction and analysis, a descriptive analysis and content analysis were performed. By evaluating the usability of Blackboard, the performing teacher will be able to enhance the e-learning learning experience and provide students with a quality, stimulating, and meaningful online education. The usability attributes investigated in this research were based on the analysis of the attributes suggested by the author Nielsen (2000), and what can be seen, according to the analysis of the data obtained, is that the functions performed by the executing professor of the institution, within Blackboard can be easy to learn, easy to memorize, generally efficient in use and user satisfaction. As much as the access/login to the VLE and the scheduling and cancellation of web classes show some errors, however, the other actions are easy to learn, allowing teachers to focus on planning and conducting classes, instead of worrying about with the complexity of the tool. Andragogy, a term coined by Malcolm Knowles, is the theory of adult education, and differs from pedagogy, which is aimed at children and adolescents. When considering the particularities of adult students, Andragogy emphasizes autonomy, experience and relevance in the learning process. For teachers who work in the context of Distance Education (DE), incorporating the principles of Andragogy can increase the effectiveness of teaching and improve the engagement of adult students. By considering autonomy, prior experience, readiness to learn, learning orientation, intrinsic motivation, and socially based learning, performing teachers can create more effective, meaningful, and enriching learning environments that promote personal growth. and professional role of adults in their educational processes.

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