Improving concepts and practices in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the production of didactic materials for distance education

• Grant number: 13/06278-0
• Support type: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): June 03, 2013
• Effective date (End): August 02, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Applied Linguistics
• Principal researcher: Maria Silvia Cintra Martins
• Grantee: Paula Ferraz Pacheco
• Supervisor abroad: Marta Ruiz Corbella
• Home Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/19486-8 - The form of transposition of didactic material from face to face to distant experiences in a course of Portuguese of UAB/UFSCar, BP.IC

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies have brought new instruments for pedagogical mediation and are responsible for reestablishing the nature and functions of didactic materials in such a modality (Nonato&Sales, 2007). The objectives of the research stage at "Facultad de Educación" of the "Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia" (UNED), under the supervision of Marta Ruiz Corbella, are: a) promoting the contact with bibliography on new literacy and digital literacy focusing the production of didactic materials; b) participating in seminars and academic meetings; c) participating in digital literacy practices. Involving a researcher pertaining to LEETRA is considered relevant in what refers to new practices and theories concerning digital literacy and Distant Education, as well as to future research involving both universities. (AU)