Um sistema tutor acoplado a um portfólio eletrônico no contexto da educação a distância - portfólio - tutor.

Abstract

Distance Education expands the scope of the inside classroom teaching model since anybody, independent of where he lives or how much available time he has, has the opportunity to initiate or complement his studies. Considering access facility, availability and interaction resources provided, the Internet arises as a promising midia for Distance Education. In this context, this work has as objective the design and implementation of a tool for the support an environment for Distance Education on the Internet – the Portfolio-Tutor, that works not as a teacher substitute, but as an aid instrument, supporting the teaching process and providing mechanisms (apparatus) that allows the teacher to keep up with students’ knowledge acquisition process and the efficiency of the applied didactic strategy. For a teaching process, it is designed a tutor based on Intelligent Tutoring Systems’ principles, that provides adapted learning in student’s knowledge level and his cognitive capacity. To keep up with students’ learning process an electronic portfolio is used, besides to propitiating an authentic evaluation, through active capacity and temporal treatment, it supplies automatic management of activities and provides necessary informations to the teacher to make decisions. In contraposition to the possibility of some education institutions be worry mostly about quantities of attended people when apply the Distance Education, the Portfolio-Tutor provides an environment engaged with the pedagogical process, where the teacher assumes the supervisor and inciter’s role, projecting and keeping up with the didactic strategy applied, to have as an objective to guarantee the learning process quality, while the students assume an active, self-educating and participant behaviour, assuming the responsibility about his learning.