(Re)visando Física: moodle, conectivismo e aprendizagem multimídia

Abstract

This paper integrates a set of discussions related to the lack of basic physics knowledge of the freshmen in the Engineering courses of the Federal Technological University of Paraná – Câmpus Pato Branco. This state end supinfluencing the failure rate in this discipline, as well as for a problem called “pocket”, characterized by a high number of students who need to redo the discipline and are on a waiting list. In order to minimize such effects, the course (Re) aimed at Physics on the Moodle platform was developed, in order to contemplate the main contents that correspond to the Physics 1 discipline, from the Basic Core of the curricular grid of there ferred courses. The formatting of this course took into account some of the characteristics of the current generation of students entering Higher Education – the Digital Natives – as well as aspects of Connectivism and the principles of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (TCAM). Several didactic resources were used, however, the concept map stood out, because it illustrates very well the articulation of the theoretical basis. The indications of the principles of TCAM provided dynamism not only in the aesthetics of the course, but also in several other aspects such as the proportionality of textual, auditory and visual insertions. Therefore, it was considered that the use of these articulated theories is plausible to refer to teachers of any level of education, só that they develop their work on multimedia didactic resources with greater potentiality and efficiency in term só flearning.