A eficiência da plataforma virtual online http://lagepeuece.wix.com/geneticauece no ensino da disciplina de graduação genética animal da FAVET – UECE

Abstract

The growing interest by students of animal genetics discipline in the use of digital resources stimulated the promotion of changes and improvements in the layout and contents of the interactive online platform: http://lagepeuece.wix.com/geneticauece. The changes were made in the visual area of the site as the presentation and organization of content, such as changes and standardizations of these images on the web pages, of the fonts and of the sizes of text boxes. Within the organizational structure the icons have been renamed as Home, Genetics Study, NEA-Fishing, More, Distance Education and Contact. At the bottom of the home page columns to events and news, contact us and visit us were highlighted. Improvements and updates have been developed on the platform of WIX sites available on the Internet through its own programming editor Wix Website Editor, with files being kept in the cloud Mediafire. The evaluation of the effectiveness of these changes was made with the students of the course, at the end of the semester 2015.2, and consisted of four objective questions in ordinal scale, and a subjective subsidies seeking to implement subsequent improvements. The survey addressed aspects: interactive online platform as a teaching methodology and improvement of learning, when 72.73% of the students expressed as much assistance; availability of material for consultation, with over 70% of qualifying the material collection as satisfactory; facilitating learning with the use of the site, where almost 60% of students said that learning occurs more rapidly; as learning the attractiveness and motivation promoted by the method using the Site, it was observed that more than 80% considered it a positive methodology as a teaching model when using the virtual platform in the teaching-learning; and the website needs to develop the student's experience and enrich their learning, he had the most frequent suggestion to reduce the amount and extent of passwords by hindering access to local activities. Due to the lack of teaching aids and the need to arouse interest in the study of the subject, it was concluded that the use of the digital platform with updated content and interactive methodologies increased the participation of students in the teaching-learning process, meaning the acceptance of method, with an expected change of passive spectator to operating subject.