Assembly in web ambient of the optional course of Acarology
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The objective of the present work was to show the assembly in a Web environment of the optional course of Acarology of discipline Plant Protection in the Agronomy career. The course is imparted in the fourth year of the career of Agronomy, within the Discipline Plant Health. The objective of the course is to utilize the techniques and appropriate methods for the identification, evaluation and management of the noxious mites that attack the economical crops. The program of the course was structured in five topics, with 60 total hours, 36 dedicated to classes and 24 to the search-labor practice. So that the student plays a more active paper as administration of the knowledge, the course was assembly in web ambient, where the student that opts by the same will find all the information it required in order to administer the knowledge. In the assembly of the course an important paper is attributed to the “units of learning,” as via in order to facilitate the organization, conduction and evaluation of the process of learning and to the “task”, as tool that facilitates the organization, conduction and control of the independent work of the student. For each one of the units of learning a guide was elaborated. They resigned 11 units of learning, with seven tasks, four practices of laboratory and two seminars. Were planned a partial tests and a seminar final integral for the evaluation of the learning of the students. Also since the Web page could be mobilized all the information scientific- technique that requires the student for the learning of the contents, offers a gallery of pictures and a glossary of acarology’s terms.
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