For a Good Provider, a Moodle Platform is enough: Study on the construction of virtual territories in distance education training
Virtual Territories, Daily Life, Work Training, Distance Education
This study investigates the dehumanizing factors present in the construction of virtual territories in distance education. The research implication approach was used as a methodology for analyzing the processes of building virtual territories in distance education. The research covers two groups of stakeholders at different levels of education: Higher Education and Strictu Sensu Specialization Level. The objective of this work was to identify the dehumanizing factors present in the construction of virtual territories in distance education, reporting the local interactions that may involve economic agents and knowledge agents. The justification for this work is to analyze the implications of training for work on virtual platforms: limits and potential, continuities and ruptures, and how is the daily life of this educational model for Training for work and its relationship with the demands of the labor market and the development of scientific knowledge. The field instrument used for this research was first the identification and characterization of students, teachers, tutors, coordinators and directors of the pole, who are key players in the undergraduate course in Technology in Computer Systems at CEDERJ and the Professional Master's in Mathematics in the National Network (PROFMAT), through interviews that will be held at the CEDERJ Barra de Piraí Campus, and at the PROFMAT Campus at UFRRJ. Second, the mapping of the types, forms and characteristics of the interactions of these key actors was carried out. Decision-making in relation to the characteristics of the key actors was to verify the role of territorial proximity, from the point of view of productive practices, cooperative action and sources of information and knowledge for innovation, regarding the characteristics of the study sample. The culmination of the present study was the observation of the use of the key actors of these means that are available on the CEDERJ Moodle Platform and the PROFMAT Moodle Platform, as well as the relationships established by social networks, life stories, expectations, rhythms, friendships, economic, political and social values, through interviews with key actors, in order to characterize the virtual space. In view of the arguments mentioned, this work also required the interpretation of the interfaces between the institutional framework, the levels of social capital and the local cognitive and innovative dynamics in relation to the Distance Education Legislation. After these stages of review and investigation, the results obtained were organized in order to offer important characteristics for the choice of the dehumanizing factors present in the construction of virtual territories in distance education. The result partially seen with this work was to reveal that the use of innovative resources submerged in the territorial space in distance education, in the power relations geographically systematized by the neoliberal perspectives, demand the burden of teacher multifunctionality and the human devaluation of teaching.