O tutor presencial e a mediação na educação a distância na UFJF: papéis e atribuições

Abstract

This dissertation aims to describe and analyze the importance of potentiation - the role of the on-campus tutor encompassing the distance learning undergraduate courses of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The analysis is focused on the professional duties of on-campus tutoring in the undergraduate course of Public Administration, compared to professionals in the undergraduate courses in Computer Science and in Education. The proposal seeks to create an Educational Action Plan (PAE, in Portuguese), with the actual tasks that should guide the work of this professional, so as to potentiate the work, observing to the demands of this educational category, to understand their relations, especially in the course of Public Administration, the National Programme for Training in Public Administration. To that end, research tools were applied of deep semistructured research to coordinators and on-campus tutors of the courses of Public Administration, Computer Science and Education at UFJF, in order to obtain data on the development of tutoring, so as to change the student profile and consequently the on-campus site. The first chapter presents the problem initially, ratified by preliminary semistructured research with site coordinators and head of the Public Administration undergraduate course. In the second chapter, the data obtained was analyzed with the guiding principles identified by the course design and mediation. And finally, the third chapter proposes the enhancement of the work of the on-campus tutors from changing the current format of work, by means of changes role of the tutor, properly described in the Pedagogical political Project of the Public Administration undergraduate course as well as the construction of a textbook and greater forms of interaction between the multidisciplinary team.