Utilização das ferramentas do portal educacional no ensino superior

Abstract

This work conducted at Centro de Estudos Superiores de Maceió CESMAC and investigated the utilization of teaching suporting techniques tools in the process of distant education. It made use of Portal Educacional to examine their contribuition in the formation process of the lecturer, their use by the professors in the semipresent training modality and also to report their academic application in the institution. The focus of the research was located in every unit of CESMAC: Faculdade de Ciências Juridicas; Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas; Faculdade de Educação e Comunicação; Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, in which participants were the professors who, to a greater or lesser extent, made use of the portal in the period of four months, from August to November/2005. The methodology used was base don a case study with a qualitative. The first chapter of the work deals with the necessity and utility of the ICT in the initial formation of the instructor, the is related to the utilization of the ITC in the semipresent university teaching and the third in the utilization of the Educational Portal.