Ambiente de aprendizagem personalizado : proposta para um sistema baseado em sensibilidade ao contexto

Abstract

This work is based on a survey about continuing training of tutors to work in distance education. The objective of the study is to investigate a proposal of personalized learning system with aspects of mobility and context awareness to this professional style. The research is guided by current theoretical frameworks that directly contribute to the idealization of the proposed system. Thus, the importance of this research is based on the use of personalization areas (Personal Learning Enviroment - PLE), mobility (m-learning) and user's and environment’s recognition (context awareness), which are said to be innovative in the field of education, and to create better use of time opportunities for the user in training. The participants involved in this study were chosen because of their experience with distance education and also because of their lack of time for training courses. It is a qualitative-quantitative action research - which enabled the analysis of the quality of the proposed system based on the percentage of evaluation and acceptance. It is conducted in four stages: theorical research; planning and development of the system; application of the system with the users and assessment of the feasibility of this system to support learning. Data collection is carried out through electronic questionnaires with questions related to the quality of the system, in order to answer the research question of this study. The collected results indicate positive contributions in innovation of mobile applications to promote education, presenting a viable model of adaptive course with context awareness characteristics, including services that offer media to study and an adaptive environment and a self-assessment tool.