Os sentidos da docência virtual na modalidade de educação a distância.

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the meanings of teaching virtual, through the narratives of a group of teachers who work in virtual environments in the Distance Education mode. Therefore, the problematic of the study covered the following question: What are the meanings that involve teaching in Virtual Environments in the modality of Distance Education in the Community Universities of COMUNG? The study was conducted with a group of teachers who work in virtual environments in the Distance Education mode. The methodological tools of this study were the online questionnaire, fieldnotes and narrative interviews. In the production of the data, it was evidenced that the senses of teaching are characterized by dynamism, adaptation, flexibility, virtualization, hominization, control, interaction, autonomy and protagonism in the online environment, making the virtual teachers, the knowledge mediators in virtual environments. Therefore, virtual teachers in the Distance Learning Mode are challenged by different experiences that make possible relationships with knowledge. Contributes, therefore, the research to teaching studies relating the meanings of being a teaching in virtual environments.