Valor formativo das aprendizagens significativas durante a crise pandêmica por Covid-19 para o desenvolvimento do ensino virtual no ensino superior

Abstract

Reinventing distance learning processes due to the pandemic crisis by COVID-19 can be a source of “Significant Learning” for higher education faculty. This essay aims to demonstrate how the reflection on “Meaningful Learning” allows contributing to the development of pedagogical practices in virtual education. It begins by describing how the virtual guiding process of monographic assignments was structured and how the students were monitored in such a way that the social distance did not affect the cohesion of the groups. Subsequently, it presents the two “Significant Learning” that were obtained through reflection: 1) that it is possible to stimulate a distance learning environment in which students increase their understanding of a topic and work collaborating with each other and 2) that the creation of this learning environment turns faculty into “Academic Coaches”. These two “Significant Learnings” assert the critical role of the reflection of faculty in increasing of the “Informal Learning” in virtual education.