Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Lia Raquel. Teaching mediation and transactional distance: use of Facebook in a master's degree course (b-learning system). e-Curriculum [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.4, pp.1484-1498. ISSN 1809-3876.  https://doi.org/10.23925/1809-3876.2016v14i4p1484.

Distance Learning continues to be an alternative modality to face-to-face settings and in distance learning the Transactional Distance problem persists. Not being this distance exclusive to distance learning, it is a concrete problem, but it can be minimized/resolved. The teacher can exercise a pedagogical mediation characterized by a behavior such as motivator, facilitator and guide to learning. For this one can use Facebook to interact with students, creating an atmosphere of familiarity and informality. Here we present a case of teaching in an academic master's degree course in Education that operates under a b-learning regime and in which Facebook was used, in addition to the institutional platform, as a forum for discussion and space for sharing of works and sensibilities. As techniques for data collection we used observation and document analysis. The course took place in a critical action research environment in which the teacher investigated his own practices with the collaboration of the students. It is concluded that a plastic mediation exercised by the teacher, using the social networking system Facebook to create an atmosphere of familiarity and informality, can contribute to overcome the transactional distance in online higher education.

Keywords : Distance Learning; Online Higher Education; Transactional Distance; New Literacies; Facebook and Education.

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