Práticas dos professores universitários na UFPel: utilização das TIC no ensino

Abstract

This study investigated the practices of professors at the Federal University of Pelotas who use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in their classes in undergraduate courses. Using the theories of Lévy, Castells, Kenski, Gutiérrez, Penteado, Porto, Cunha and Behrens, professors' practices were analyzed in search of the factors that are important to influence on these processes. The research was conducted in two stages. At first, an online questionnaire among professors of the University was applied to diagnose the use of ICT by them. In the second phase, an ethnographic case study was conducted with a group of ten Graduation professors nominated by their colleagues, to investigate their teaching practices with ICT. At this stage the research techniques used were interviews, observation of lessons and document analysis. When analyzing the data, four categories emerged: professors of UFPel, the relationship of professors with the technology, the infrastructure of UFPel ICT and teaching practice with ICT. The results show that the teachers surveyed are using ICT in education in three situations: traditional teaching; communicational teaching and collaborative teaching. Although teachers have shown a predominance of either one of the identified situations, characteristics of other situations may also appear sometimes in their work.