Journal of Biochemistry Education

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Authors: Marcus Vinícius Lara, Sidnei Borges, Marcos Welter, Pâmela Billig Mello-Carpes

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the academic environment of biomedical area has gained much importance, both for their ability to complement the understanding of the subject obtained in the classroom, is the ease of access, or makes more pleasure the learning process, since these tools are present in everyday of the students and use a simple language. Considering that, this study aims to report the experience of building learning objects in human physiology as a tool for learning facilitation, and discuss the impact of this teaching methodology.

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Authors: Adriana Oliveira Ferreira, Clauciene Aparecida Lima, Gabriel Gerber Hornink

The online communication tools enable students to new ways of learning, and are important tools in online courses. Considering the focus on collaborative learning, one of the tools highlighted is the discussion forum and which interaction understanding of these interactions may contribute to the improvement of online courses. This work aims to analyze the relations in online discussion forums and seek evidence of their use in a biochemistry and to evaluate the use of other learning tools. In addition to the forums, will be presented the evidence of use of other tools (chats, wiki etc). All these are important tools for teaching and learning processes in an online course. It was observed a greater use of discussion forums that promoted a greater interaction between those involved. It is noteworthy that the students highlighted the need for interaction among themselves for their own learning. The contextualization, the questioning and encouraging dialogue were indicated as a possible way to improve Biochemistry online teaching.