What I Learned About Online Education: An Analysis of Course
Participants’ Responses About Their Training in the Pandemic

C. D. Cruz Neto, M. A Costa, S. P. L. Cordeiro, R. E. F. Senra

(Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil)

Abstract: The report presents the IFMT’s experience in offering an online course for training in online education for its employees during the pandemic period of the new coronavirus. Based on the reuse of educational resources and the discussion among course participants, the course aimed to train more than 1,300 course participants on an emergency basis, with different levels of knowledge about distance education. As a result, we can describe that, despite certifying less than half of the enrolled course participants, the training brought up the difficulties of teachers in putting themselves in the perspective of the learner and in using the resources of information and communication technologies to learn. Such evidence was decisive for the institution to develop its plan for training for employees.