Virtual Learning Environments became common practice as a course tool for both distance and presence learning courses, as they support the communication among the parties involved. This study describes research carried out on data that were generated by the interaction with the Moodle VLE within an educational institution, with focus on the analysis of due dates and actual submission dates for assignments in the course environment. The objective of this study is to obtain relevant information about how course assignments are posted in the learning environment, to guide actions supporting the reduction of submissions after the due date or close to the deadline, and to propose a transparent and automatic approach to integrating KDD activities to the Moodle environment, where the data mining stage is restricted to the algorithms selected within this study and the results are presented in a simplified manner within the user interface in the Moodle environment. The study considers the time the assignment remained open for posting, the course to which the assignment was proposed and the actual time when the assignment was posted into the environment. It was carried out following the steps of the knowledge discovery process in databases, using the Weka tool. As a result from the KDD process performed in our database, the number of postings that were closer to the final expiry date were higher for assignments longer than 15 days, graduate courses tended to have longer assignments than undergraduate courses, and they also presented a higher number of postings after the due date or close to the expiry date of the assignments. In this context, shorter assignments are recommended, in order to increase postings soon after the opening of assignments and to enable teachers to obtain faster feedback from the learning process undergone by the student. That makes possible to take corrective actions in shorter time in order to avoid student failure or dismissal. The implementation of the KDD process within Moodle enables the experimentation by users in an automatic and simplified manner. / Como ferramenta pedagógica, os Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem (AVA) tornaram-se prática comum para o ensino à distância como nos cursos presenciais, por dar apoio à comunicação entre os envolvidos com o ensino. Essa dissertação descreve uma pesquisa realizada sobre os dados gerados pela interação com o AVA Moodle de uma instituição de ensino, focando a análise de prazos e de datas efetivas de submissões de tarefas neste ambiente. O objetivo deste trabalho é identificar padrões relevantes sobre a postagem de tarefas no ambiente, para subsidiar ações em auxílio à postagem muito próximo ao final do período de postagem e propor uma forma transparente e automática de integrar ao Moodle as atividades de KDD. A ferramenta de integração proposta aborta os algoritmos de mineração de dados EM e J.48, selecionados no nosso estudo e os resultados são apresentados de forma simplificada aos usuários na própria interface do Moodle. Para o estudo, são considerados o período em que a tarefa permaneceu aberta para postagem, o curso proveniente da tarefa e o período em que a postagem foi realizada. O estudo foi realizado seguindo as etapas do processo de descoberta de conhecimento, com a utilização da ferramenta Weka. No estudo observou-se a incidência do número de postagens mais próximas ao término do tempo de postagem quando o prazo da mesma era superior a 15 dias. Nos cursos de pós-graduação, observa-se que o tempo para postagem é maior que nos cursos de nível superior e que esse nível apresenta maior quantidade de postagem sendo realizadas no final do prazo de postagem. Nesse contexto, é mais viável a realização de atividades com um prazo menor. Além de um maior número de submissões logo na abertura para postagem, o professor consegue feedback mais rápido do processo de aprendizagem do aluno. Isso possibilita tomar atitudes corretivas em tempo mais adequado a fim de evitar o insucesso ou desistência do aluno. Com a implementação da integração do KDD ao Moodle é possível a realização de experimentos por usuários de forma automática e simplificada.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-09T12:28:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-02-27Bitstream added on 2015-04-09T12:47:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000813119.pdf: 911969 bytes, checksum: 02d90f1bf7cd6f91244cd697697571d6 (MD5) / Este estudo de caso, longitudinal e de base etnográfica, teve como objetivo investigar e analisar o complexo processo de (re)construção das identidades culturais, profissionais e sociais de alunos do curso de Letras de uma Universidade Federal do extremo norte do Brasil. Enfatizamos que o termo identidade (MOITA LOPES, 2003, 2006, 2010) proposto neste estudo assume uma natureza multifacetada, provisória, fragmentada e mestiça, o qual será analisado dentro dos construtos vigentes da Linguística Aplicada. A investigação foi realizada por meio da análise qualitativa dos relatos reflexivos realizados pelos professores em formação inicial ao longo de quatro semestres da disciplina de estágio supervisionado de ensino de língua estrangeira (Inglês), como também de relatos e interações postados numa Comunidade de Prática-CdP (WENGER, 1998; CLARKE, 2008) e nas sessões temáticas promovidas durante o processo de investigação. O gênero narrativo denominado relato-reflexivo, são estórias de vida e experiências desses alunos-professores com a regência, que, em momentos pontuais, são dialogadas com o leitor-pesquisador. No intuito de compreender como se dá a (re)construção de suas identidades profissionais, sociais e culturais, nos propusemos a analisar, concomitantemente, os aspectos cognitivos (BORG, 2006; ZEICHNER, 2005; ZEMBYLAS, 2005) como também as emoções e a afetividade (VIEIRA ABRAHÃO,1992, 1996, 2004, 2006; BARCELOS, 2007, 2010; ARAGÃO, 2005; COELHO, 2011) que perpassam o processo de negociação de identidades na formação inicial de professores de língua estrangeira numa perspectiva sociocultural de educação. Os resultados da análise evidenciam uma interligação dos fatores sociais, cognitivos e emocionais de (re)construção identitária recorrentes tanto no contexto virtual como presencial. Além disso, nas narrativas pudemos visualizar sincronicamente o complexo processo de (re)construção e o fluxo ... / This ethnographic and longitudinal study is aimed at investigating, analyzing and understanding the complex process of professional, social and cultural identity (re)construction in pre-service teachers in a Teacher Education Course at a Federal University in the extreme north of Brazil. The pre-service teacher’s narratives were investigated through a qualitative approach. The narratives were collected from these students-teachers during the four semesters of their supervised internship class in their undergraduate course, as well as the interactions they posted in the Community of Practice-CdP (WENGER, 1998; CLARKE, 2008) and discussed in thematic sessions accomplished during the process of investigation. The narrative genres that called reflexive narratives are live histories and experiences the teacher-students experimented with and practiced while teaching English classes at public schools. These narratives are dialogued with the researcher-reader at specific moments. Then, we simultaneously intended to understand how this professional identity (re)construction happens and we also will analyze the cognitive (BORG, 2006; ZEICHNER, 2005; ZEMBYLAS, 2005) as well as the emotions and affective aspects (VIEIRA ABRAHÃO, 1992; 1996, 2004, 2006; BARCELOS, 2007, 2010; ARAGÃO, 2005; COELHO, 2011) which one experiences while negotiating identity as the foreign language teacher education process in a sociocultural perspective. The results indicate an interconnectedness of social, cognitive and emotional factors in the identity (re)construction in both face to face and virtual spaces of interaction. Furthermore, the narratives elicit the synchronic way of the complex process of identity construction as well as its flow and its transience. We also observed a major incidence of co-construction of professional identities in the Community of Practice’s (Moodle) interactions, showing itself mainly as a sharing of emotions, realizations, ...

Investigamos o potencial colaborativo mediador das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) livres, por meio da ferramenta de atividade wiki do Moodle. A meta era mudar o modo de produção no processo escolar presencial, semi-presencial e a distância e maior fluência em Ciência e Tecnologia na vida cotidiana. Propusemos a realização de um processo de investigação-ação escolar, com atividades de estudo mediadas pelo wiki do Moodle. Nos balizamos pelos conceitos de diálogo-problematizador, colaboração e autonomia, essenciais na interação escolar mediada pelas TIC livres, em especial nos Ambientes Virtuais de Ensino-Aprendizagem. Como resultado principal sinalizamos limites, desafios e avanços da referida mediação tecnológica educacional no escopo colaborativoescolar. / In this work we have investigated the collaborative mediation potential of free Communication and Information Technologies (CIT) present at the activity tool in Moodle's wiki. The objective was to change the way production occurs at presence, semi-presence and distance school processes and, to give greater fluency to Science and Technology in daily life. It was proposed the implementation of a school action research process with the school activities mediated by Moodle's wiki. We monitored our work with the concepts of a problem posing dialogue, collaboration and autonomy that are essential to school interactions mediated by free CIT, especially in a Virtual Teaching and Learning Environment. As a result from this work we delimitated the limits, challenges and advances of this educational technological mediation in a school collaborative scope.

Investigamos o potencial colaborativo mediador das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) livres, por meio da ferramenta de atividade wiki do Moodle. A meta era mudar o modo de produção no processo escolar presencial, semi-presencial e a distância e maior fluência em Ciência e Tecnologia na vida cotidiana. Propusemos a realização de um processo de investigação-ação escolar, com atividades de estudo mediadas pelo wiki do Moodle. Nos balizamos pelos conceitos de diálogo-problematizador, colaboração e autonomia, essenciais na interação escolar mediada pelas TIC livres, em especial nos Ambientes Virtuais de Ensino-Aprendizagem. Como resultado principal sinalizamos limites, desafios e avanços da referida mediação tecnológica educacional no escopo colaborativoescolar. / In this work we have investigated the collaborative mediation potential of free Communication and Information Technologies (CIT) present at the activity tool in Moodle's wiki. The objective was to change the way production occurs at presence, semi-presence and distance school processes and, to give greater fluency to Science and Technology in daily life. It was proposed the implementation of a school action research process with the school activities mediated by Moodle's wiki. We monitored our work with the concepts of a problem posing dialogue, collaboration and autonomy that are essential to school interactions mediated by free CIT, especially in a Virtual Teaching and Learning Environment. As a result from this work we delimitated the limits, challenges and advances of this educational technological mediation in a school collaborative scope.

In recent years there has been growing enthusiasm among researchers for the promotion of online learning communities designed to support professional learning in preservice teacher education. The primary purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the role of such an online community in supporting student teacher learning during the school placement in a Chinese Normal University, and hence to enrich the understanding of student teachers’ learning experiences in an online ecology. The study’s subjects included a cohort of 42 student teachers enrolled on a four-year preservice teacher education programme, along with two university supervisors at one of China’s teacher-training universities. Primary data were collected from six weeks of online threaded discussions and from semi-structured group interviews. Supplementary data were taken from an end-of-school-placement evaluation and web-tracking logs. Data analysis has been informed and illuminated by the theoretical proposition of communities of practice. The findings of the study indicate that the online learning community is a valuable resource for supporting student teachers both personally and professionally. Findings suggest that online communication not only helps student teachers tackle immediate teaching concerns and technical problems, but, more importantly, provides them with opportunities to reflect collectively, to co-construct new teaching ideas, and to gain professional discourse competence through articulating and negotiating their evolving thoughts on teaching as a profession. In this regard, student teachers are found to be more comfortable with online self-disclosure of their personal and professional encounters and critiquing each other than they are with face-to-face communication. The research also shows that university supervisors experience mixed feelings about the fact that student teachers are more able to take ownership of their learning and therefore become less dependent on supervisor guidance as time wears on. Furthermore, these findings provide evidence suggestive of a possibly reciprocal relationship between Chinese view of learning and the building of online learning communities. Based on the results of the study, I provide recommendations as to how the significance of the school placement can be reinforced in fostering distributed student teachers’ professional growth. The results also contribute to a better understanding of the key factors in the design and implementation of effective online learning communities within preservice teacher education in China. Finally, the analytical approach used in this study provides fresh methodological insight into an alternative means of analysing online postings. It thus contributes both to the theorisation of learning communities in the context of computer-mediated communication, and to the further development of concepts drawn from the communities of practice literature.

La investigación surge como respuesta a la preocupación por las actitudes de rechazo y desinterés de los estudiantes frente a las asignaturas de teología, específicamente cristología; así mismo a la exigencia de la incorporación de la tecnología de la información y comunicación (TIC) en el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje, potenciando así, la construcción del aprendizaje. Se propone la implementación del aula CristoAct, en la plataforma Moodle, como medio de apoyo a las sesiones presenciales de la asignatura de cristología; teniendo como objetivo demostrar que el uso del aula virtual CristoAct, mejora la actitud de los estudiantes frente a la asignatura de cristología de la Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo. La metodología aplicada fue de tipo experimental, con diseño cuasi experimental de un sólo grupo, con pretest y postest. Teniendo como población, estudiantes matriculados en la asignatura de cristología distribuidos en 7 secciones; y como muestra a los estudiantes de la sección “G”. El grupo en estudio mejoró el nivel de actitud frente a la asignatura de cristología demostrando que la utilización del aula CristoAct ha facilitado espacios para compartir, interactuar y realizar la extensión de la temática en estudio, reflejándose los resultados en su rendimiento académico. La actitud positiva de los estudiantes se debió al uso del entorno virtual como elemento didáctico, ya que motivó a los estudiantes y acrecentó una actitud favorable frente a la asignatura; siendo reutilizables los recursos multimedia diseñados e implementados por el autor en cualquier plataforma y/o servidores de la web.

This dissertation pursues the possibility of increasing quality of teaching students in medical fields using LMS Moodle. It is based on years of experience with designing of e-learning courses at the Charles University. LMS Moodle uses knowledge of computer-aided or computer-controlled teaching at universities. According to an analysis of the changing situation at universities that is characterized by increasing number of students, also by creation of bachelor degree courses and unideal teaching financial security on the one hand and the significant developement of ICT on the other. As part of this work the usability of ICT in medical study fields was solved in subjects "Medical Informatics" , " Prosthetic materials and technology" and " Gnathology". In the last year (2010) LMS Moodle was started for a whole network of medical faculties that cooperate on the creation and access to electronic learning materials MEFANET (Medical faculty's network since 2007). Analysis of the central installation operation of Charles University's LMS Moodle for teaching from 2004 to 2010 gives a good picture of the aspects associated with the operation LMS Moodle, which would help assisting in management of LMS Mooodle Mefanet. The tracking of an e-learning course's development within the central Moodle installation at the...

The dissertation aims to expand access through a low-cost technological innovation system S-MLS to learners in underdeveloped areas with difficulties in accessing education. Technology is advancing rapidly. However, many parts of the world need access to educational advances, which are hindered due to war, political situations, and low literacy and income. A qualitative phenomenological approach explores the lived experience using the solar-powered computing and learning management system (LMS) to support the development of educational access in underrepresented societies, developing countries, and rural areas where access to proper classroom education is non-existent. Proof of concept is used with a group of students in a rural area, a developing country, and within an underrepresented population to check the feasibility of using the equipment in a real-world setting. A technology acceptance model would be used to identify the user's perceived interest and user acceptance. The community of inquiry theory would find the first-hand experience and point of view of the learner. The student group interviews would be through semi-structured interviews. Observations, surveys, video/audio recordings, and artifacts would be gathered for further analysis. The data collected would be analyzed using interpretative phenomenology analysis (IPA), close examination, and management of development themes through thoughts, observations, and reflections on the technological experience and future research and implementations provided. The projected finding would be to check that a solar-powered Raspberry Pi system with MoodleBox operating system that runs Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) LMS would be feasible to provide learning underdeveloped areas to enhance education.

SUZUKI, Juliana Telles Faria. Ambiente virtual de aprendizagem: reflexões para uma pedagogia on-line. 2007. 112f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação na Formação de EAD) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação na Formação de EAD, Londrina-PR, 2007. / Submitted by Maria Josineide Góis (josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-06-28T14:55:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_Dis_ JTFSUZUKI.pdf: 1682805 bytes, checksum: d5ff8a36025e464ab94a98f47b7ff95e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-02T16:04:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_Dis_ JTFSUZUKI.pdf: 1682805 bytes, checksum: d5ff8a36025e464ab94a98f47b7ff95e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-02T16:04:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_Dis_ JTFSUZUKI.pdf: 1682805 bytes, checksum: d5ff8a36025e464ab94a98f47b7ff95e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / O presente trabalho de dissertação discute questões surgidas na sociedade com o advento da internet, provocando impacto de diferentes naturezas em diversas áreas, sobretudo na educação. O surgimento e a introdução de ferramentas via internet voltadas para o gerenciamento de atividades educacionais suscitou a necessidade de repensar a prática educativa ressignificando os papéis desempenhados pelas instituições de ensino, pelos professores e pelos alunos. Dessa forma, teve por objetivo maior analisar as contribuições do uso de uma interface dentro do ambiente virtual de aprendizagem Moodle aplicada à prática pedagógica de professores do ensino superior na modalidade presencial. Para isto buscou-se na literatura questões pertinentes voltadas a este assunto que possibilitaram focalizar o estudo. Desenvolveu-se também uma interface dentro do ambiente Moodle que possibilitou a realização de fóruns de discussão com professores do curso de Letras e Pedagogia que estão em exercício de sua profissão. Por fim realizou-se a tabulação e a análise dos resultados que permitiram considerar a importância da formação contínua na prática docente e a viabilidade de utilizar ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem como suporte ou complemento ao ensino presencia / O presente trabalho de dissertação discute questões surgidas na sociedade com o advento da internet, provocando impacto de diferentes naturezas em diversas áreas, sobretudo na educação. O surgimento e a introdução de ferramentas via internet voltadas para o gerenciamento de atividades educacionais suscitou a necessidade de repensar a prática educativa ressignificando os papéis desempenhados pelas instituições de ensino, pelos professores e pelos alunos. Dessa forma, teve por objetivo maior analisar as contribuições do uso de uma interface dentro do ambiente virtual de aprendizagem Moodle aplicada à prática pedagógica de professores do ensino superior na modalidade presencial. Para isto buscou-se na literatura questões pertinentes voltadas a este assunto que possibilitaram focalizar o estudo. Desenvolveu-se também uma interface dentro do ambiente Moodle que possibilitou a realização de fóruns de discussão com professores do curso de Letras e Pedagogia que estão em exercício de sua profissão. Por fim realizou-se a tabulação e a análise dos resultados que permitiram considerar a importância da formação contínua na prática docente e a viabilidade de utilizar ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem como suporte ou complemento ao ensino presencia

Thesis (MPhil (Modern Foreign Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The decline in the Grade 12 pass rate in South Africa has been a cause for widespread concern. While this decline in is the result of the interplay of many factors, one of them is undoubtedly that teachers and pupils often find themselves in situations where they do not have access to adequate resources. This study is a formative evaluation of material that was created with the Moodle learning management system, in order to provide teachers and learners with resources that can be made readily available online. These resources are accessible from computers and cellular phones with internet connectivity. The resources not only provide content, but also learning activities that can be used either by individual learners, or with a teacher in a classroom environment. In the absence of a teacher, the activities could also provide meaningful feedback to aid learners in the learning process. Two courses were created in the Moodle Learning Management System that cover work prescribed for Grade 12, English First Additional Language for the period 2009 to 2010; namely the prescribed short stories and the play, Nothing But The Truth by John Kani. A number of activities are evaluated according to usage and feedback that they provide. The outcome of the study is that it is possible to provide learners with online learning materials which will enable them to prepare thoroughly for the final examinations. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die daling in die Graad 12 slaagsyfer veroorsaak kommer in baie geledere. Alhoewel hierdie daling die gevolg kan wees van baie faktore, is een van die redes dat onderwysers en leerlinge hulle dikwels in 'n situasie bevind waar hulle nie die nodige toegang tot die nodige leermateriaal het nie. Hierdie studie doen ‘n formatiewe evaluering van die leerprogram wat ontwerp is met behulp van Moodle, 'n leerbeheerstelsel, om onderwysers en leerders van die nodige leermateriaal te voorsien. Die leermateriaal is toeganklik vanaf beide ‘n rekenaar en 'n selfoon met internet toegang. Hierdie leermateriaal verskaf nie net statiese inligting nie, maar bevat leeraktiwiteite wat deur leerders op hulle eie gebruik kan word, of saam met 'n onderwyser in 'n klaskamer. In die afwesigheid van 'n onderwyser kan die leermateriaal ook die nodige terugvoering verskaf, sodat dit leerders kan help in die leerproses. Twee kursusse is ontwerp as deel van 'n Moodle stelsel wat van die voorgeskrewe werk dek vir Graad 12, Engels Eerste Addisionele Taal vir die tydperk 2009 tot 2010; naamlik die voorgeskrewe kortverhale en die verhoogstuk, Nothing But The Truth, deur John Kani. 'n Aantal aktwiteite word evalueer ten opsigte van die gebruik en ook die terugvoering wat dit voorsien. Die resultate van die studie is dat dit wel moontlik is om voldoende studie materiaal aan Graad 12’s besikbaar te stel wat hulle kan gebruik om voor te berei vir die eindeksamen.