As ações educacionais à distância são uma estratégia de ensino em Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) e de Organizações e Trabalho (O&T). Nesta modalidade, os estilos de aprendizagem fornecem informações para o aperfeiçoamento e a elaboração dos métodos instrucionais. As estratégias de aprendizagem são empregadas em Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem (AVA), enquanto recurso tecnológico que potencializa e amalgama um conjunto de competências e habilidades indispensáveis para o sucesso do aluno. O respectivo estudo objetiva investigar as diferenças e as semelhanças conceituais entre estratégias e estilos de aprendizagem, por meio da validação convergente entre instrumentos que medem tais constructos. Participaram virtualmente do estudo cento e trinta e cinco alunos de uma universidade pública, matriculados em um curso superior à distância. Os resultados indicaram que o conceito de estratégias de aprendizagem, por vezes, se converge com o conceito de estilos de aprendizagem, apresentando baixos índices de correlação em sua maioria. Pesquisas futuras devem buscar promover a revisão dos instrumentos utilizados, a partir das discussões apresentadas nesta investigação. Palavras-chave: educação a distância, estilos de aprendizagem, estratégias de aprendizagem, instituições de ensino superior, características do estudante.
The learning process includes several specific learning skills. The Learning Strategies, crucial to improve the selection and planning processes of teaching strategies in distance educational actions, is an example. The objective of this study, mainly quantitative in nature, was to compare the use of Learning Strategies by participants enrolled in university extension and teaching degree distance courses. Results found from t-Test point out that Cognitive Strategies, Self-Regulation and Emotion Control are most widely used by participants in the Extension course. It is highlighted the use of Learning Strategies that enable the monitoring and regulation of the organization and the cognitive process by teachers in initial or continuing education must be considered in order to achieve better course planning.
Distance Learning (DL) has been shown to be adequate to the current field of Training, Development and Education (TD&E), which constantly undergoes transformations resulting from technological innovations. Students’ characteristics is one of the factors responsible for abandoning DL programs. This study aimed to relate the possibility of evasion of a DL course and the variables belonging to the student’s characteristics (Learning Strategies and Styles). A total of 135 students enrolled in a distance learning degree responded virtually to the instruments of Learning Strategies and Styles. The results showed that most participants who would not abandon the course used the Behavioral and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies and presented the Learning Style related to the Study Environment. The data obtained contribute to future planning of TD&E programs, which should consider the clientele’s characteristics.
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