Virtual environment and teaching methodology in Higher Education in on-site modality

• Main Authors: Ettiene Guérios, Sandra Sausen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora Universitária Champagnat - PUCPRESS 2013-01-01
• Series: Revista Diálogo Educacional
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=189126039015

This paper discusses the use of virtual environments in Higher Education in the presential modality. It comes from reflection on the results of qualitative research on exploratory-interpretative processes of interaction and mobilization of knowledge identified in students from a classroom course in Mathematics using resources from virtual learning environments. The theoretical framework is based on Thompson (2004), Primo (2008), Silva (2010), Scherer (2005), Charlot (2000), among others, with regard to the processes of interaction and mobilization of knowledge; in Guérios (2002) and Doll Jr. (1997) regarding the methodology of teaching in teacher education. The methodology of teaching is considered in an epistemological perspective that considers the relationship between subject and knowledge in the light of the curriculum learning. We observed that knowledge was mobilized in the interactive process and that there was conceptual learning of theoretical foundations of the Methodology of Teaching Mathematics subject. We discuss these results in view of the methodology of teaching in initial teacher training. We conclude pointing to the possibility of building a teaching methodology for higher education in the classroom mode, in which the spaces and virtual classroom environments are used as articulated environments, in the context of pedagogical practices that favor the existence of a reflexive learning movement.