Formação Continuada de Professores da Educação à Distância do Instituto Federal do Acre para o uso de Recursos Educacionais Abertos

Abstract

Based on the context experienced by teachers in recent years, due to lack of formation in the use of current educational methodologies and resources, especially Distance Education (EaD) teachers, it was questioned which formative proposal for this purpose would be valid. In this sense, this work proposes a CONTINUOUS FORMATION OF DISTANCE EDUCATION TEACHERS AT THE FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF ACRE FOR THE USE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. The work was based on a research-formation, with the aim of presenting the formative proposal for teachers who work in Distance Education at Ifac, integrating three specific objectives: a) identify the perception of teachers about Ifac's EaD; b) prepare a formative proposal and to form teachers on the use of Open Educational Resources for EaD, based on collective consensus in the context of research-formation and c) evaluate continuing education (validation) and organize the educational product. The research is represented by 03 articles and 01 educational product, in which the first article brings the "History of the evolution of Professional and Technological Education and Distance Education in Brazil", carried out from a bibliographical research, of a basic nature and exploratory objective. The second article, “Teachers' Perceptions on Ifac's Distance Education: reflections on continuing education for the use of OER, and the third “Teacher Formation on Open Educational Resources: Engagement in Distance Education” were elaborated through a research-formation, based on the principles of the collective research modality, of an applied nature, with descriptive objectives and a qualitative approach, using digital technological tools in data collection, such as forums, questionnaires on Google Forms, Padlet wall and word cloud on the Mentimeter, which were incorporated into Moodle, in which data analysis followed the steps of Creswell's spiral (2006). The research confirmed the lack of continuing education of EaD teachers and the low knowledge of this educational modality, establishing consensus on the difficulties and formation needs related to the technical and didactic-pedagogical processes of EaD, including the use of Open Educational Resources. The construction of the formative proposal was based on teachers' consensus and on conceptions consistent with distance education and OER, in a constructivist approach, using active methodologies and formative assessment, supported by information and communication technologies (ICTs). The proposal resulted in an educational product, which represents a course on "Teachers Formation of the Distance Education on the use of Educational Resources", considered by the participants as a process of strengthening teaching autonomy, stimulating creativity and collaborative learning, meeting the needs on the use of OER and pointing out new ways of teaching and learning, in the transformation of educational practice.