Questões éticas em pesquisas online e em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem sob o olhar de professores/pesquisadores

Abstract

Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) became possible because access and visibility of a group of information related to people experience in the most vast areas of knowledge and even experiences related to dimension in day by day living. Therefore, it did not delay for the digital world to be used as tool for data production in many researches, in the most variety methodological designs. Facing that, this survey suggests to investigate ethics applications in web research and in Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) in the perspective of teachers/researchers from the ICT area in education. To do so, it is discussed the matter of research paradigms and their relations with the ethics normalization of resolution 466/12: verify ethical strategies proposed by Brazilians teachers/researchers when performing online researches or in VLE. It is analyzed how researches involving education technologies are connecting with research ethics. It is analyzed the ways teachers/researches practice their work, focusing, more specifically about what and how they talk in ethics implications performing online researches and in VLE. This survey consists under the vies of qualitative research. The research included bibliographic review and interview with teachers/researchers linked to the programs of post graduation in education of some Brazilian universities which the acting emphasis targeting the use of ICT. The analysis was performed using Dialogic Map, which made possible a wider visualization of containing topics in the speech of participants. This way, it was possible to identify some senses about the ethic context in research produced by people interviewed, who demonstrated recognition about the ethic importance performing researches online and in VLE, as long as they issued opinion, concerns and critics about the topic in review. It is expected with this survey to contribute to the ethics debate concerning online researches and in VLE, as well as to the manners that teachers/researches involved in this survey deal with ethic aspects inherent to their practices producing knowledge; opening a possibility to the (de)construction of speeches in pro of a ethic scientific practice, targeting overall the protection of the survey participants.