The sociocultural diversity of learning environments leads to the necessity of interdisciplinary development of investigations and accessible tools that can efficiently promote the learning. One of the challenges is to evaluate the impact of the tools on apprentices, educators, educational systems, and society.
In this context, this research project aims to investigate methods, techniques, processes, theoretical approaches and interaction paradigms for the education and learning mediated by technologies. Technological tools will be designed and developed to mediate education and learning, considering computational, pedagogical and cognitive aspects. Such tools will be applied and their impacts evaluated in educational contexts.
The research will be conducted following theoretical bases of the Universal Design which contemplate tangible and assistive digital technologies. The Universal Design allows the use of tools without the need of adaptation by a variety of people with different characteristics, with or without physical or cognitive barriers.
The trajectory of this research assumes the formation of an international network which contemplates the collaboration among UFABC graduate programs and foreign institutions. The expected results are products, technologies and theoretical guidelines for the elaboration and evaluation of tools and their users. Examples of these results include tangible and digital learning objects, virtual and augmented reality environments, digital games, tools for supporting authorship of contents, and software development processes.
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. André Luiz Brandão
E-mail: andre.brandao@ufabc.edu.br
Coordinator’s Curriculum Lattes (research projects, publications and academic info)