A UTILIZAÇÃO DE AMBIENTES VIRTUAIS NO ENSINO DE BIOQUÍMICA. UM ESTUDO DE CASO NA UNICSUL.

In the last two years the UNICSUL following a new institutional proposal of “Practical Learning”, has introduced new teaching strategies into several graduating courses, mostly based on the University’s intranet web. One of these approaches uses the Black Board Learning System, a ready-to-use and uncomplicated system that allows students to freely access specific topics of several disciplines (including the course schedule, practicing exercises and supporting extra activities) and also communicate online with colleagues and teachers. The software is provided with sufficient resources to improve classroom community sense launched by the emphasis on the general interactive skills in the teaching-learning process. This work focuses on the application of the Black Board system in the Biochemistry course for Nursery graduating students at UNICSUL during 18 months. Partial results points out significant positive achievements of the Black Board-experienced students based on the higher approval indexes compared to traditionally taught students (before 2003).

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