Interfaces interativas nos processos comunicacionais do curso de química

Abstract

In cyberculture, the unidirectionality given to mass media, is the place for network multidirectionality, reconfiguring the logic of the communication system. In Distance Education (EaD), the multiple interactive interfaces available on the internet, such as e-mail, forum, chat, WhatsApp and virtual learning environment (AVA), provide the interaction and interactivity of the subjects, fundamental conditions for a process communication with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In this perspective, this study has as general objective: to investigate how the use of interactive interfaces by teachers, tutors and students, can contribute in the communicational processes of the chemistry EaD course. The theoretical framework is supported mainly by Primo (2005, 2011) studies on interactions and their interactions and interactions: participation-intervention, bidirectionality-hybridization and potentiality-interchangeability, Mattar (2012), which discusses the types of interactions between the subjects, Leite (2011, 2015) and Vasconcelos (2015, 2017) on the pedagogical use of interactive interfaces. This is a research with a qualitative approach and bias in a case study. Data were collected through a semistructured interview and questionnaire, as well as consultation with the pedagogical project of the course and other documents. The results show that: little emphasis is given in the pedagogical project to the interactions that can be established between the subjects with ICT use, however, the planning of the disciplines suggests the use of different interfaces; AVA and WhatsApp stand out as interfaces most used in the course, the latter being characteristic of learning with ubiquitous mobility; few interfaces are incorporated into the virtual environment and with limited use; there is mutual interaction between the subjects and relationships based on the binomials of interactivity; the relationships established between teachers, tutors and students are in line with what is expected for this type of education, since they recognize the need to contemplate cyberculture in the teaching-learning process.