Developing Professionals: Experience from a Distance Learning Short Course during the COVID-19 Pandemic [chapter]

Beatriz De Castro Magalhães, Adriana Vieira Nobre, Rachel Cardoso De Almeida, Laís Barreto De Brito Gonçalves, Liz Marjorie Batista De Freitas Leite, Maria Do Socorro Vieira Lopes, Jucier Gonçalves Júnior, Evanira Rodrigues Maia, Grayce Alencar Albuquerque
2022 E-Learning and Digital Education in the Twenty-First Century [Working Title]  
The developing and delivering of distance education (DE) courses in the stricto sensu reality in nursing arises in order to strengthen training processes in this area to sensitize critical and reflective professional performance. Thus, this book chapter seeks to report the experience of master's students of the Academic Master's Course in Nursing at the Regional University of Cariri, Ceará, Brazil, in the construction and tutoring of a course in the DE modality. Descriptive study, of the
more » ... nce-report type, resulting from the elaboration and development of a short course on COVID-19, offered in the modality of distance learning, by stricto sensu postgraduate students, destined to graduate nursing students. The experience of developing the short course was positive in the sense of teaching practices, and occurred collectively, through discussions and exchange of knowledge between professors and students, in a planned and organized way. Even before operational limitations, the total process of planning, designing, developing and delivering the short course was considered a successful experience. The recognition of the potentialities and difficulties of the process helped formulating and applying the short course, always based on objectives centered on the perspectives of the students and tutors.
doi:10.5772/intechopen.99923 fatcat:blhrybwbyra4xgjdjnbwi2rnze