Estudo Exploratório Acerca da Implementação de uma Rede Virtual de Aprendizagem Colaborativa Envolvendo as Escolas Agrotécnicas Federais

Abstract

The New Technologies of Information and Communication have played a basic role in the search of a more and more democratic education. In this perspective, this work consists on an exploratory study for implementation of a virtual net of collaborative learning proposal between the Federal Agrotécnicas Schools (Agrorede), thus, subsidizing the accomplishment of activities on-line among them and extending its educational horizons through virtual out of time spaces. In this direction, the inquiry preliminarily searched to outline the current scene of the federal agrotécnicas schools together with its education coordinators, in the intention of setting its possibilities and limits referring to virtual net implantation. After that, in order to allow the realization of the virtual net idea there was created a functional model of the above-mentioned net, AVA Moodle, which was submitted to the appreciation of responsible professionals from the computer science area of the federal agrotécnicas schools of the whole country. Finally, the conclusions that emerged from the reports indicated the existence of a positive expectation for such a proposal of a community of learning implantation through a virtual net, besides positive positionings regarding the use of computer science as mean of improvement to the quality of the education offered for the net schools.