Avaliação do uso do vídeo como ferramenta complementar de ensino.

Abstract

The use of Information and Communication Technologies has been stimulated by UNESCO, however concerning to the offering of content in Brazilian Higher education it still remains underused. The use of video is widespread and well accepted and they can be presented as single video or series of videos, characterizing the podcasts. The aim of this study was to evaluate the offering of video content by the health courses of the Brazilian Northeast and understand how short and long videos, concerning basic histology, offered freely on <youtube.com> are used by the users. It was used the list of courses obtained along the Minister of Education website to access and evaluate of the 789 health courses of the region. After, videos created and published. 21 months later, the patterns of use were observed using the YouTube analytics tool. It was observed that the majority of the courses did not offer instructional videos on its website and that when offered, videos were done via referatory. In addition, it was observed that long videos were viewed preferentially; and also that short videos were capable to better retain users attention. It was possible to conclude that videos are interesting teaching tools, since there is a significant search for it, that short videos are visualized more completely, and also their utilization on Brazilian Northeast health courses is still minimal.