Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem AVA: uma experiência virtual de acesso ao exercício de cidadania e melhor qualidade de vida

Abstract

This thesis "AVA - Virtual Learning Environment, " emerged from the demands placed by people over 60 years, Internet users, when questioned about the contents that a virtual environment should contain regarding to the project "Health Care and Quality of Life of Elderly ", conducted by researchers at the Catholic University of Brasilia (UCB) and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). Since then contents were prepared, which were implemented in virtual environments friendly to the elderly, who have to interact through a virtual course. Besides the intervention of a virtual education program was measured using the quality of life for the elderly before and after the main course. This work was conducted with 33 elderly and presents the steps for creating, implementing, development and analysis of the Advanced Course of Acquisition of New Languages and Navigation for Elderly People. The course, itself, enabled the elderly to use the resources offered by the Internet, developing their competence in the use of technology and enabling them to exercise their citizenship in view of their daily practices and their quality of life in the physical, psychological, social and environmental dimensions. The multidisciplinary course, content of interest to the elderly, showed the practice of the concept of distance education and its outcome suggests that this type of intervention benefit, aside from digital inclusion, the exercise of citizenship and health education in a virtual environment