Processo de criação e avaliação de um guia para elaboração de cursos a distância na área da saúde

Abstract

The growth of the use of information and communication technologies for health training purposes represents advances that must be understood throughout Brazil by the professionals and workers who work in the Unified Health System (SUS), especially those working in Attention Distance Education has been the fastest and most accessible means of disseminating knowledge in this area, providing permanent education and professional updating, qualifying large-scale care in the SUS. The SUS Open University System (UNA-SUS) has been responsible for leveraging the range of courses in the distance modality, free of charge, facilitating the access of health professionals to education, being composed of a set of Higher Education Institutions and the Executive Secretary UNA-SUS. However, several initiatives in distance courses in health have arisen without producing a large literature on the requirements of construction of these courses. This paper aims to present the process of creation of a Guide to the production of courses in health in the distance modality, which supports the production of distance courses focused on health, based on the multimedia materials posted on UNA health platforms -SUS. The methodology was elaborated in five stages, and the first three served as a basis for defining the characteristics of the guide through a study of a model of Management and Monitoring of the Course Production Process of the UNA-SUS Network; of a systematic review carried out in texts of courses made available in the Collection of Educational Resources in Health (ARES) by the institutions that make up the UNA-SUS Network and the analysis of these practices. In the fourth stage, the EADSaúde Guide was elaborated, consolidating the activities identified as essential in the course model studied and in the practices observed in the courses available at ARES. Finally, the Guide for the production of courses in health in the distance modality was evaluated by a group of specialists with practice in design, development and management of distance courses and obtained results that indicate a high acceptance rate of the items and contents of the Guide