Os desafios no estudo on line em salas virtuais: uma análise das ferramentas do AVA na EAD UFGD e UNIGRANET

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Abstract: The present article has the goal of analyze the challenges faced by the academic students on the on line virtual classroom of graduation in the learning ambient Distance Modality, coming from a case study made between the Learning Virtual Ambient (AVA – the short form in Portuguese) Moodle EaD – UFGD And the UNIGRAN Platform NET. In the beginning , we will show a short historic board and explanation of the Education by Distance (EaD) in Brazil, besides the evolution in the AVAs and the coming of new tools of learning that contribute for the teaching‐learning process. The present paper threats the discussion about the available tools in both College teaching institu‐ tions which offer courses by distance, it also brings a description of the two vir‐ tual ambient and their workings. The theoretical framework is supported by au‐ thors who research and discuss themes such as: Moran (2013) , Behar (2008), Lévy (2004 and 2005) , Moreira (2004), Kensi (2002), Silva (2003), Belloni (2001) Testa (2013). The goal of this article is lined in the verifying of the learning tools in the public and private IES of the Great Dourados region, providing the char‐ acteristics and main challenges shown by the subjects involved in that process, demystifying the prejudice that exist about the quality offered by the Teaching by Distance. In that point, despite of the challenges faced by the academic stu‐ dents in the distance modality, the learning tools provide a teaching‐learning process able to enlarge the pedagogical practice, besides mediate the building of the knowing.