POTENTIALS OF VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS (AVAs) IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING FROM DISTANCE EDUCATION (EaD)

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the contributions that AVAs offer to the teaching and learning process in and distance education. This is review research, with analysis of qualitative characteristics and of an exploratory and descriptive character. For the survey and selection of material documents, the electronic database of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) Scielo was used. Based on the ive/exclusive inclusion and exclusion criteria, 14 articles were selected guaranteed to compose manuscripts to compose the analysis of the study corpus. For data analysis, we opted for the application of Bardin's Content Analysis, which, from which emerged the thematic category “Virtual teaching environments (AVEs) and their potential (s) for learning in DE. list a thematic category. It is concluded that the VLEs enhance the elevation of examples and submissions of answers in the exercises, the acquisition of knowledge and new skills, the learning of the other, the contact with a diversity of ideas, the transport of knowledge, reflections and theoretical deepening, the discovery of the new, mass sharing and gain insights into professional knowledge and analysis of online reflections among participants. They impel and expand the post-structuralist conception of education, favor the use of disparate modes of language and facilitate communication/interaction.