DISTANCE EDUCATION AS A SUPPORT TO LIBRARY SCIENCE TEACHING: a viability study using the Aulanet’s environment

Abstract

Distance Education (EAD) is a resource or a teaching/learning modality that remote to the antique with the Platos´s letters and the Saint Paul´s epistles. Nowadays, with the coming of the new technologies of information and communication (NTIC), this teaching modality has been used and spread for the Brazilian universities. Several are the environments developed to give support to EAD, among those stands out Aulanet. The main focus of this research is to develop a study about the viability of the EAD adoption, using the Aulanet as support to the discipline Scientifique Work Methodology (ETM). The data were collected through applied questionnaires to six teachers that supply the discipline. The results take to the following conclusions: a) that is viable the use of that teaching modality using the atmosphere Aulanet as an auxiliary tool; b) that should also be known the student’s expectations with views to obtain larger subsidies for the adoption of that tool.