USE OF INTERACTIVE TOOLS IN TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED EDUCATION: A PROPOSAL FOR TEACHING TRAINING
Keywords: Educational Technologies; Virtual Learning Environments; Audiovisual resources; Interactivity.
Technological resources have been increasingly used in distance education due to advances in new tools and the spread of broadband with respect to Brazil's national scope. Its potential for interactivity and access to interactions between human-human and human-machine promises once and for all to facilitate the teaching process mediated by technologies. With the popularization of Virtual Learning Environments (AVA’s), the use of these systems has become a necessary tool for the intermediation of the process and for the optimization of the information / data that transit there daily. Among the environments available on the market, we highlight the Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment), for being a free and open source system, which allows the incorporation of new tools. In addition to having a large number of employees in its community. However, it is clear that Moodle, in its current situation, still suffers from the absence of native tools that provide learning with a greater degree of interactivity and that contemplates a greater power of immediate feedback from users. In this way, this work includes the implementation of two external plug-ins: “h5p” and “recordRTC” in order to achieve high levels of engagement and motivation of users through high interactivity. The experimentation and validation took place through the creation of a self-instructional course, offered to professors at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.