The analysis of the Context

Interview with the teacher responsible for the face-to-face course of academic literacy offered by the university to students of all the undergraduate courses.

・ Analysis of 60 final assignments.

・ online questionnaire sent to a thousand teachers of the institution of higher education for the survey of structural, normative and linguistic problems identified in the work-61 returned.

Analysis of object

Elaboration of the theoretical model of the object based on the assumptions of Feuerstein (2014) and some elements of Bakhtin (2010) .

Elaboration of the theoretical model of the object, considering the research performed in a closed environment (de Dallegrave & Vosgerau, 2014) and further development in Bakhtin (2010) .

Preparation

Analysis and selection of media and technology available in the institutional virtual learning environment.

・ Analysis of the limits on the use of the resources of the virtual institutional learning environment identified by de Dallegrave & Vosgerau (2014) .

・ identification of technology for design of MOOCs, from systematic review, which could help to overcome the limits found in the research by de Dallegrave & Vosgerau (2014) .

Development

・ Creation of the online course: “leveling of Portuguese Language: production, writing, genre summary”, in the virtual institutional learning environment.

・ Validation through the implementation of the course for graduate students, participants in projects of scientific initiation.

・ Creation of MOOC: “Simplifying the TCC”, on Moodle platform.

・ Validation through the provision of access to 36 students who have allowed the analysis of their final assignments (36 students used the environment and responded to the validation questionnaire).

・ Validation through the provision of access to 61 teachers who replied to the questionnaire (initial 16 teachers used the environment and responded to the validation questionnaire).