The development of learning strategies by distance learning students in the face of self-regulatory activities

Abstract

The purpose of our research was to analyze the development of learning strategies used by distance learning students of Pedagogy and ADS courses in the face of self-regulatory activities. This research presents as a differential the fact that the didactic and pedagogical elements were elaborated in an unprecedented way so that there was an adjustable environment with a learning trail built on the principles of cognition, planning and self-motivation. We interviewed 100 students, in which they were submitted to a semi-structured questionnaire that would offer us clues as to how the process of strategy development took place during the 30 days in which the virtual room was available in the VLE of the Ser Educacional Group in EAD. As a general objective, we seek to analyze the development process of students of the Pedagogy and ADS Course in EAD da Uninassau in the face of pedagogical activities from a perspective of self-regulation of learning, as this, we propose to: identify students of the 1st period of the Pedagogy and ADS Courses, we elaborate in the VLE (virtual learning environment) didactic materials that guarantee the stimulation for the development of self-regulation strategies and we understand how this student learning process took place. As a methodology, we applied a semi-structured questionnaire inserted in the VLE so that we could analyze the students' self-regulatory skills. There were two moments, the same questionnaire being applied at the beginning of the classes and at the end. With this, we identified that the students who participated in our research showed significant changes in their understanding of self-regulation, as well as reported that they developed new habits and changed their academic and personal lives. This could be analyzed in the data collected and during the development of the students and the discipline.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/ptoketheeducati-074