Recursos educacionais abertos como tecnologias educacionais na educação superior e na promoção da saúde

Abstract

The open education and the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) are currently subject widely discussed for managers, teachers, and researchers in the health field. The debate especially concerns the access to knowledge and training. In fact, it mainly occurs because the education, information, and the health are valuable resources for the development of a nation, and for the quality of life of its citizens. Based on these perspectives, the present study aims to understand and analyze how the teachers, who work in high-education courses in health, have used the OER in their practices. Therefore, we carried out a qualitative research with professors of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) teaching in undergraduate and graduate programs in medicine, nursing, dentistry and physiotherapy. The evaluation strategy was to applying a questionnaire by using the Google Docs. According to the results, it was concluded that there are, even, little degree of knowledge, and negligible application of these resources by the teachers surveyed, which highlighted some shortcomings, such as the lack of training, poor basic skills to the utilization, and limited freedom to create and innovate their educational practices.