Módulo de notificações da Authoring Tool for Instructional Design - ATID: uma proposta centrada na entrega de atividades

Abstract

Distance Education is still growing in relevance nowadays, and for this modality, the so-called virtual learning environments (VLE) have emerged as support for the application of courses. Among them we can highlight the Moodle platform, which allows the creation and management of courses. In addition to AVAs, for planning and defining the strategies of these courses, tools are available for defining and visualizing the instructional design - ID, which is the field of study responsible for designing the planning of a course. Such tools allow the construction of flowcharts, such as the Authoring Tool for Instructional Design (ATID), which allows teachers to define or import the DI of a course from the integration with Moodle. ATID currently has a demand for teachers to be notified about the activities that make up the ID. Thus, the objective of this research is the development of a notification module, which will help teachers in monitoring ID activities. In addition, we seek to investigate themes and characteristics associated with notification systems, the definition of the structure and presentation of notifications, the execution of tests with the module already developed and the application of a questionnaire to evaluate the module. Thus, this research is guided by the question of how it is possible to improve the monitoring of ID activities through notifications. The methodology used was Design Science Research (DSR) using the method known as Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) which provided a model for identifying the problem, defining the objectives, developing, demonstrating the results, user evaluation and communicating the results. As a result, it can be highlighted that the users who participated in the test were satisfied with the inclusion of notifications within the ID, who believe that this inclusion will facilitate the teaching work by providing better monitoring of the course, in addition to the fact that notifications can help in the identification of difficulties in the class.