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      Avaliação em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem Translated title: Evaluation in virtual learning environments

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          A demanda por avaliações de projetos de aprendizagem virtual a distância tem requerido o emprego de conceitos e métodos que transcendem o campo exclusivo da Educação, destacando-se a multiplicidade de marcos teóricos e abordagens técnicas empregados nas estratégias avaliativas de aprendizagem online. A despeito da hegemonia dos métodos quantitativos na avaliação das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, o emprego de métodos qualitativos nas avaliações de ambientes virtuais tem crescido ao longo das duas últimas décadas. A combinação de métodos quali-quantitativos possibilita uma melhor compreensão dos fenômenos subjacentes ao uso das tecnologias para a aprendizagem online. Dado que a educação em ambientes virtuais refere-se a experiências de aprendizagem que utilizam recursos hipermidiáticos em ambientes apoiados por uma tecnologia de comunicação online, optou-se neste artigo enfocar alguns tópicos relativos à avaliação de tecnologias de informação e de aprendizagem nesses ambientes, aprofundando a discussão no que tange aos métodos relevantes à avaliação tanto dos ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem quanto da aprendizagem nesse meio. Essa opção se deve tanto ao reconhecimento das especificidades das práticas pedagógicas da EaD que colocam em evidência a relação entre educação e comunicação, viabilizadas por meio das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, quanto aos diversos papéis, negativos e positivos, atribuídos às tecnologias de comunicação e informação na Educação.

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          The demand for evaluations of projects of virtual distance learning has required the use of concepts and methods that go beyond the strictly educational field, with emphasis on the multiplicity of theoretical frameworks and technical approaches employed in the assessment strategies of online learning. Despite the hegemony of quantitative methods in the evaluation of the technologies of information and communication, the use of qualitative methods in the assessment of virtual environments has increased throughout the last decades. The combination of qualitative-quantitative methods allows a better understanding of the phenomena underlying the use of technologies for online learning. Given that education in virtual environments relates to learning experiences that make use of hypermediatic resources within environments supported by an online communication technology, we have opted in the present article for focusing on topics associated to the evaluation of information and learning technologies in these environments, furthering the discussion concerning the methods relevant to the assessment both of the virtual learning environments and of the learning within this medium. This choice is due to the recognition of the specificities of the practices of distance learning, which stress the relationship between education and communication, made possible through the new information and communication technologies. It also recognizes the various roles, positive and negative, attributed to the information and communication technologies in education.

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          Information technology (IT) is emerging in health care. A rigorous evaluation of this technology is recommended and of high importance for decision makers and users. However, many authors report problems during the evaluation of information technology in health care. In this paper, we discuss some of these problems, and propose possible solutions for these problems. Based on own experience and backed up by a literature review, some important problems during IT evaluation in health care together with their reasons, consequences and possible solutions are presented and structured. We define three main problem areas-the complexity of the evaluation object, the complexity of an evaluation project, and the motivation for evaluation. Many evaluation problems can be subsumed under those three problem areas. A broadly accepted framework for evaluation of IT in healthcare seems desirable to address those problems. Such a framework should help to formulate relevant questions, to find adequate methods and tools, and to apply them in a sensible way.
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                Journal
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                Educação e Pesquisa
                Educ. Pesqui.
                Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo )
                1678-4634
                December 2007
                : 33
                : 3
                : 513-530
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Brazil
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                S1517-97022007000300009
                10.1590/S1517-97022007000300009
                c1ea2ee6-0161-42ff-bc80-abbc8c6227f4

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

                Educational research & Statistics
                Evaluation,Virtual learning environment,Types of evaluation,Qualitative-quantitative methods,Avaliação,Ambiente virtual de aprendizagem,Tipos de avaliação,Métodos quali-quantitativos

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