From face-to-face to online: characteristics of the learning community in a master's course in times of COVID-19

características de comunidade aprendente em uma disciplina de mestrado em tempos de COVID-19

Abstract

This study came from the desire to identify characteristics of a learning community in a curricular component of a master's course that, during the pandemic moment, where we are living right now, needed to have changed its modality, moving from face-to-face to online. Thus, the present article is characterized as a registry from the analysis of the training path of a group of teachers in a master's course in COVID-19 times. The class consisted of 21 students who, even in the remote mode, remained until the end, completing the course. Thus, it is intended to build answers to the following question: What characteristics of the learning community does a master's class present, when moving from a face-to-face proposal to an online format? For conducting the empirical research, an electronic questionnaire with 13 questions was developed on the Google Forms platform. The text is based on the theoretical conceptions of different authors, as the analysis of the speeches of the teacher trainer and the master's students. The research aims to understand how a group of students organized themselves in a learning community, through digital technologies, in times of social distance. Possibly this type of study will become a trend in teacher education, since it is shown as a training based on dialogue, the sharing of ideas and the investigation of practices that can transform the reality of students and teachers. Thus, from the analysis emerges the procedural movement in that the class was involved, enhancing learning related to the use of digital technological tools, contributing to the expansion of online dialogical interactions and allowing the continuity of the teaching-learning process in the context of the COVID pandemic. -19.