ABSTRACT
As society absorbs technological novelties increasingly faster, this evolution has been affecting all human activities and pedagogical practices. The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies in education has led to the emergence of Virtual Learning Environments. This article aims to study the usage of Moodle tools and discuss their pedagogical potential in three UNIFESP distance learning graduate courses. With a quantitative case study-driven inquiry, content analysis and a bespoke tool developed for the study, called “Moodle 1.9.x Data Extrator”, were used for the data collection. The study concludes that although Moodle offers constructivist-oriented training tools aimed at its primary focal points of interaction and collaboratively constructed knowledge, in the courses sampled, the learning process, as regards the use of Moodle and the tools offered by the VLA, seems to have assumed a trend closer to the traditional teaching approach.
Distance Learning; Learning; Medical Education
