CiberEduc: Building and Developing a Virtual Collaborative Learning Community of ICT Applied to the Daily Work of Brazilian Universities Reference Librarians

Author:

Suely de Brito Clemente Soares

Email:

suelybcs-at-hotmail.com

Advisor:

Sergio Ferreira do Amaral

Award Date:

February 2006

Institution:

UNICAMP Faculty of Education

Institution Location:

São Paulo, Brazil

Web Location:

http://libdigi.unicamp.br/document/?code=vtls000384508

Abstract:

It´s already unusual in Brazil the exploration of cyberspace for educational purposes, specially regarding to ability professionals of information through the remote long living education. After that presupposition this research was developed through qualitative approach. It can be classified at explicative level and labeled as almost experimental methodology. The purpose of this study was to build to develop and to observe the interactions at cyberspace a collaborative learning community with brazilian universities reference librarians self-interested in the ICT applied to their daily work, wich were invited to participate as subjects of this research by posted messages in their discussion lists. The proposal offered to them was spontaneous and free participation during the second semester of 2003 at a virtual community called CyberEduc. It was built at UNICAMP´s TelEduc virtual environment. A CyberEduc´s presentation video was available UNICAMP´s cameraweb to be watched via internet. The 118 active subscribers with the researcher and her adviser shaped a community of 120 cyberstudents who became from Brasilia, DF and 12 brazilian´s states. The CyberEduc was structured around an agenda that pointed out to 14 different activities. An initial and another final interview was the first as well the last activity. The analyzed and caught data offered a vision over the subject´s interactions with the environment and between themselves also the contributions gave to the CyberEduc like participating with their personal files, doubts, critics, suggestions and matters. The log number to the CyberEduc was 2081. The sum of all environment links access was 13140. It was described all discussed ICT. The chapters describe the environment tools configuration, the CyberEduc community developing and some additional contributions to the scientific knowledge about collaborative learning virtual communities. Because of quantity either quality of interactions happened, the final considerations witness that was developed, in fact, an online ICT´s collaborative learning community.