Distance Learning Courses Reviewed - What Can We See?

Abstract

The research project "Quality in Distance Education: a longitudinal survey of teacher's training in federal programs" has prospected nine thousand teachers about critical achievements in distance learning courses. Our target public was students in a postgraduate course from 2006 to 2013. This article presents the results collected through the final survey instrument applied to 5,892 students. The data was analyzed and some detected constructs pointed to a definition of quality setting in the student's perspective, namely: teaching materials, pedagogical mediation, virtual learning environment, methodology, student academic and technical support. The qualitative assessment showed other aspects mentioned by the respondents. This paper also presents the analysis of an open question asking a free review of the course. Surprisingly, students nominated important aspects of the pedagogical process in distance learning such as teaching strategies, objectives, curricula content and their dynamics indicating that a distance learning mode course requires an active pedagogical mediation and the teaching-learning design must encourage collaboration.

Mediación virtual en la enseñanza y la instrucción: avances y retos

“…En un estudio longitudinal, Bogossian et al (2015) analizaron la calidad de los cursos de educación a distancia virtual desarrollados en una universidad de Brasil en un periodo de siete años. Durante este periodo, 5892 estudiantes evaluaron a 9000 docentes mediante una encuesta sobre la calidad educativa.…”