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Handbook of Research on Determining the Reliability of Online Assessment and Distance Learning
Methodology that was thought and idealized by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs in 1995. This methodology consists of a creative process that aims to generate dialogues between individuals.
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Blended Teacher Training Program: Rethinking Learning Spaces and Evaluating Active Learning in Basic Education Schools
Marcos Andrei Ota (Cidade de São Paulo University, Brazil), Andreia Cristina Nagata (Cruzeiro do Sul Educacional, Brazil), and Tatiane Carvalho Ferreira (Cruzeiro do Sul University, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4769-4.ch014
Abstract
Nowadays information is processed quickly, and it provides new ways of interaction between the students and the teachers. The digital learning process has entered in our schools and has also brought a great discussion: how to teach in the digital age. To answer it, the authors aim to present a case study about the teacher training program developed in a blended model. Its purpose was to support the teaching practices and to rethink the learning spaces as well as to generate reflections on the issues of how to evaluate the application of active methodologies which are used in the basic education. A total of 20 teachers from four private schools in São Paulo have completed the training program. Thus, it enabled considerable advances in the planning of active classes. It was noticed, according to the results, that the teaching methodologies represent a challenge to be overcome in new training programs.
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