Formação de professores tutores para a docência online: a UFJF em perspectiva

Abstract

This work was developed under the Professional Master in Management and Education Assessment (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policy and Federal University of Education Evaluation of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). One has to analyze the formative process of training / tutors for working in undergraduate courses of the UAB / UFJF. The tutor training has aroused the interest of scholars on the subject, concerned about the quality of the Brazilian basic education, with a view to expansion of distance education in Brazil and the world in recent decades. The relevance of this study lies especially in reflection on the training of trainers - tutors - whose training process for teachers is critical to performance of this professional front to pedagogical, methodological, historical and legal claims in undergraduate courses offered in the form DE. The assumption of this investigation, confirmed during the research, is on the need to implement a tutor training policy at this university. The methodology used was the qualitative study of case in which data were collected through documentary analysis by the UFJF, bibliographical research, interviews with coordinators and TAE, and online questionnaire developed with tutors the distance in search of understanding dynamics of the constituent processes, involving a researcher dialogue with the reality studied. For the development of theoretical research framework, we appealed to authors and researchers with recognized contribution in the field of education to distance learning, emphasizing the formation of the tutor, among them Paula (2008), Bernal (2008), Bortolozzo (2009 ), Mill (2007), Gatti and Barreto (2009) and Costa Rausch (2012), Tavares (2011). The survey results showed that there is an initial and continuing education policy tutors in UFJF but isolated actions and not complementary and interconnected that they can not suppress all basic demands of training of tutors for not observing the specifics of distance education mode. The results revealed also that you must include academically and socially tutor in UFJF.