MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE (MOOC) IN TEACHER TRAINING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHORT DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL GAMES ALIGNED TO THE BNCC
Teacher training; Digital educational games; MOOC; BNCC
Amidst the growing use of different digital educational resources at school, digital educational games have increasingly stood out and shown potential as an important pedagogical strategy capable of promoting active learning. Simultaneously to this, there has been evidence of a growing demand for continuing education aimed at the target audience of teachers. However, these trainings need to be able to prepare teaching professionals beyond the mere use of digital information and communication technologies, thus encouraging the active participation of these professionals in the construction of their own digital educational resources, such as games for example, since that it is the teachers who know the reality of the school, the students, the classroom and the curricular contents that need to be included in these resources. In view of this, this research aimed at building and offering a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with the purpose of working on skills and abilities related to the construction of digital educational games with teachers. In this way, the open and massive online course, product of this research, was built and directed to basic education teachers with the objective of offering these professionals training for the construction of digital educational games with curricular contents aligned with the Base Nacional Comum Curricular – BNCC. For this purpose, the design principles of the instructional model ADDIE – Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation were used in the construction of the MOOC. To validate the course product of this research, a training offer was made to a pilot group composed of twenty teachers from the public education network in the municipality of Santana do Matos in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. As a result, it became possible to highlight the relevance of open and massive online courses in promoting quality continuing education, insofar as the MOOC model, when well planned and structured, can be an efficient alternative, capable of promoting continuing education clearly, quickly, with quality, at a low cost and with effective results.