Ensaio sobre educação a distância e design de disciplina on-line

Abstract

Health courses in Brazil have always been reticent about the use of distance learning, even after the Ministry of Education decree regulated the use of this teaching method. The course of the Faculty of Medicine (FAMED) of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) has been using some initiatives in this sense in a timely manner, having received questions about the use of distance learning when it was under external evaluation. In order to deepen the knowledge about Distance and Online Education, the author held a post-doctorate at Universidade Aberta, in Lisbon, Portugal. With the outbreak of the pandemic COVID-19, there was an agitation in education for remote use, often without adequate appropriation of theories on the subject. The present work is an essay on Distance Education and models of online courses or disciplines in three parts. First, the theoretical framework on the themes is presented. The second part deals with multicentric research on discipline design. And the last part is dedicated to the subsequent developments, with the projects of implantation of the distance modality in FAMED, creation of the Distance Education Center and elaboration of the action research project, to accompany the process of implantation of the distance modality in FAMED.