TITLE:
Educational Microcontent for Mobile Learning Virtual Environments
AUTHORS:
Marcia Izabel Fugisawa Souza, Sérgio Ferreira do Amaral
KEYWORDS:
Hypermedia, Language, Mobile Devices, Technology of Distance Learning, Educational Media
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.9,
May
26,
2014
ABSTRACT: The article relates a theoretical
and conceptual research, whose main objective was to develop a model to guide
the production of educational microcontent to be used in virtual learning environment with mobility, from interconnections between Pedagogy, Communication
and Semiotics. It discusses technologies and mobile devices, mobile learning,
microlearning, microcontent and hypermedia, educational microcontent and hybrid
languages. It highlights the challenges related to the introduction of mobile
devices in educational practices. It considers the physical constraints and the
fragmented nature of mobile interaction, under which microcontent is, at the
same time, accessible and gifted with pedagogical elements. Educational
microcontent is analyzed from the hypermedia perspective, considering the
dominance of hybrid languages in digital media. A methodology of educational
microcontent production for virtual learning environment is presented,
considering the predominance of hybrid languages. This methodology is
constituted by the processes:
pedagogical architecture and architecture of languages, which represent the
main flows of activities and tasks. The research conclusions indicate that: a)
the model developed presents the conceptual and theoretical elements essential
to the production of microcontent education for mobile learning; b) the
concepts and grounds presented in the research are considered preliminary
conceptual and theoretical elements; c) the developed model provides grants to
developing new research proposals and has the potential to encourage new
academic research projects; d) the model has the possibility of being used in
didactic-pedagogical projects that focus, for example, collaborative learning
and co-authorship.