Uso da Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação no Ensino Superior: Sistema Integrado de Gestão de Atividades Acadêmicas da UFC

Abstract

Nowadays we are living a revolution in technology, communication and information. This revolution has affected not only the social life, but also education, the institutes of higher education, the way of teaching, teacher education and consequently his/her own way of teaching in the classroom, and also his/her relationship with the students. The interest in this research arouse from the point that professors are the professionals that have more involvement with the students. Those are responsible for the universe of information, share information, make the knowledge possible and enable the flux of information and communication with his/her students. With this study, we aim to investigate the use of Sistema Integrado de Gestão de Atividades Acadêmica- SIGAA by professor of undergraduation courses at UFC (Universidade Federal do Ceará), establishing an analysis of its use among the many units/subunits of the university. This is a descriptive explanatory research in which the main data were collected in the internal documents of this institution, followed by open interviews made with some professors that frequently use the SIGAA system. As it could be verified, the professors from the undergraduation courses of this institution has little knowledge of how to manage SIGAA, although the number of posts made by these professors on the last three semesters have been stable. So, an initiative must be implemented by the administration personnel from UFC in order to maximize the use of SIGAA among the undergradation professors.