The Future of Education

This research proposes a theoretical-practical reflection on the aspects to be considered in the elaboration of a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), destined to undergraduate and graduate students in Humanities and Linguistics. The importance of inserting Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Portuguese language teaching has been the subject of academic and pedagogical debates. Technological innovations make possible a transformative education, supporting the elaboration of activities, the use of varied tools and the use of resources broader than those generally used in the classroom, besides providing greater interaction between teachers and students and greater student autonomy (Haguenauer, Bechara, 2010; Seara, Dias, Barros, 2016). In addition, ICTs can promote more access to information and curriculum flexibility, favoring the dissemination of research and inclusion. However, the adaptation of theoretical themes to online courses requires didactic-pedagogical and theoretical reflection, and it is still relatively recent to create MOOCs in the area of letters and Linguistics. Thus, the main focus of this research is to discuss the didactic-pedagogical strategies used in the elaboration of the MOOC about referencial process. Our theoretical foundations regarding the use of ICTs in education were based on Lévy (2000), Rabello e Tavares (2017), Cabral and Seara (2014), Ramos, Alves Filho and Santos (2017), among other authors. We will discuss the structure of the MOOC regarding referencing - a linguistic content, which is relevant in the reflection on the language, in the reading and in the production of different texts. We also aim to discuss the specificities of the elaboration of MOOC directed to the postgraduate, and the difficulties found in the preparation of the materials and in the use of the tools. Our goal, therefore, is to collaborate on the agenda of research in distance education, presenting theoretical and practical reflections on ICT and education.

Keywords: e-learning, language teaching, referencing, Text Linguistics, media genres;

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