Um sistema para elaboração e realização de atividades restritas por localização para Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem

Abstract

The distance education is a technology-mediated education mode in which the teacher becomes an intermediary of knowledge and the student is primarily responsible for the pursuit of knowledge and learning. In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the use of this form of education in public and private institutions, boosting the development of new technologies and technological tools in order to support this growth. In this context, the Learning Management System (LMS) have become very used to support for distance education. However, these environments present some limitations, requiring the construction of technological tools to circumvent such restrictions. In the midst of this information it has been found that some teachers have difficulties in tracking students in designated locations for supervised internship, both physically and by E-learning support environment. Therefore, this paper proposes an approach involving mobile technologies and location context to enable the preparation and realization of tasks in specific locations. This allows the teacher to create a task and assign it to a specific location and make sure that the student was at the scene, because the task will be available only in the location set. In addition, we developed a Multi-agent System (SMA) to notify about deadlines and tasks available in the environment through SMS and email. The approach was validated in two disciplines of distance courses and internship in a pilot course conducted at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) that allowed the initial validation with real users in various scenarios of applicability of the approach.