Uma investigação sobre compartilhamento e controle de versão de recursos educacionais abertos

Abstract

Context: In the quest to present better content and didactic practices, primary education teachers face difficulties related to copyright and intellectual property due to the usage and sharing of didactic materials. In addition, they are frequently required to rework and adapt preexisting contents without support to properly record the history of the evolution of these contents, causing a loss of information. Objective: The objective of this work is to evaluate the effect of using version control in the maintenance and sharing of daily lesson plans as OER. Method: After research on OER and observations of the environment of these teachers, several scenarios were defined for the development of daily lesson plans built in the OER format with version control. For this, it was necessary to build a web application to support the development of OER by these teachers and to carry out workshops that contemplated running these scenarios. For analysis of the usage of version control for OER, a questionnaire based on UTAUT 2 was used, complemented with further questions related to this context. Results: The application resulting from this work was made available online and as open-source software, licensed under the MIT license. During the workshops, it was used to support the proposed capabilities within the defined scenarios. The application of the UTAUT 2 technology acceptance questionnaire and analysis of open-ended questions showed a mostly positive response to the questions raised and acceptance of the use of version control to maintain and share OER. Conclusions: The objective of the investigation was achieved, with the acceptance of the version control to maintain and share daily lesson plans as OER using the tool developed within this research.