Descrição e análise da utilização do ensino híbrido na Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados

Abstract

The contemporary society goes through profound and rapid transformations, especially the changes in production processes and the increasingly intense use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), in all social relations. It allies to the arrival of the generation of digital natives to the university, what becomes indispensable the debate about the increasing use of technologies in education, such as the new methods of teaching, among them, the hybrid teaching. The present work had the general objective to describe and analyze the use of hybrid teaching at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD). It is a qualitative-quantitative survey, which used documentary source and questionnaire application. As a result, it has been discovered that the use of ICTs and Internet is common within the UFGD, by students and teachers, especially in studies. It has been identified, considering the current social scenario that the actors involved in the educational processes view as a viable and consistent option the integration between distance and presence learning, particularly to give a greater flexibility to choose the schedules and study places and allow a greater autonomy to the students in front of the educational processes. With regard to their use, it has been discovered that the hybrid educational model is used at least 55% of the undergraduate courses from UFGD, in many cases without the forecast in the pedagogical project of the course. It has also been noticed that 76, 5% of the teachers who have already taught hybrid disciplines at the UFGD, act or have already acted in courses in the modality of distance education. In relation to the obstacles encountered for the use of the hybrid teaching at the UFGD, one can cite the lack of teacher training for the use of ICTs and the resistance of the same in the process of convergence between the presence and the virtual. In brief, the main suggestion shown by the searcher for a better acceptance of this format by teachers from UFGD is to provide institutional training about the use of ICTs in the educational processes, both in their aspect operational as pedagogical.