Análise e avaliação de softwares de ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem

Abstract

This study consists of the analysis and evaluation of virtual learning environments that aim to verify the operation of tools available in VLEs according to the perspectives: Technological/communicational/social, didactic/pedagogical and of management (SCHLEMMER, SACCOL and GARRIDO 2007). The purpose is that, after this analysis and evaluation, it can be provided subsidy to whoever may be interested in adopting these kinds of Distance Learning management software or even using it for classroom teaching. The work is justified by the relevance of Virtual Learning Environment to the expansion of Distance Learning and by the importance of this modality to the process of democratization of knowledge in contemporaneity. It is a bibliographic research, given that it looks for results at already published papers, like books, articles and magazines. It is also a quantitative/qualitative research, as it uses qualitative data without abdicating of analysis, meanings and interpreting data. It was used a Model of Evaluation of ELV created and presented by Eliane Schlemmer in her doctoral thesis, in the year of 2002, at which she proposed to evaluate this kind of software following four different perspectives: a) Technical; b) Communicational/social; c) Didactic/pedagogical and d) Management. Afterwards, in an article of 2007, together with Saccol and Garrido, she presented a reformulation of the same model combining the technical and communicational/social perspectives. That reformulated model is the one we used in this work, with the three perspectives of evaluation of ELVs being the Technical/communicational/social, the Didactic/pedagogical and the Management.