EVALUATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: THE USE OF MOOC AS A DIGITAL LEARNING SPACE

Abstract

Historically, the act of evaluation has become an excluding, authoritarian and antidemocratic tradition, being a classifying and selective mechanism, focused on the educator and the educational system, without prioritizing who learns. Therefore, we must understand that when evaluating, we need instruments that are diagnostic and guided by equity, thus allowing to provide a learning opportunity that makes sense to the student, since there is no "truth", but truths that are revealed and validated according to the epistemological, methodological relationship and the current historical moment. Therefore, this research aims to offer a course in a massive and open format, known as MOOC, thus allowing to broaden the scope of the offer, but optimizing budgetary and scheduling issues. The course addresses the concepts of learning assessment, its methods and the use of digital technologies, in a formative perspective in the context of Environmental Education, seeking the integration of the traditional way of doing allied to the insertion of new environments/knowledge through an emancipatory intentionality. The research is linked to the Rio Doce School Program, whose objective is to offer postgraduate training to educators (teachers, managers and community representatives working in schools) who work in public elementary schools.