Treinamento a distância sobre o gerenciador de referências Mendeley

Abstract

This paper presents the methodological stages through a report of experience about planning and carrying out a course by e-learning on Mendeley reference manager, whose lessons were available on Google Classroom. It discusses the theoretical basis upon Mendeley by reading publications which approach it as a tool of the Web 2.0 and also comparing it with others reference managers, as EndNote and Zotero. Nethnography was used as scientific method, and participant observation as strategy to collect data, beside the discourse of the collective subject on virtual communities of researches. It also presents the reach of Mendeley based on Search Engine Optimization, and the Google Trends was used as a tool aiming to compare the reach of reference managers around the world according to searches made on Google. After that, it approaches the content produced to online video lessons through softwares that were used at recording and editing them, as well as showing the proposal of activities, the access statistics and the length of videos, which were uploaded onto the YouTube. It concludes partially by presenting the main doubts shared on online class, pointing out that there will be academic productions in the future based on the answers which have been obtained through an evaluation questionnaire sent after ending of the course.