Notificação-ação: Informação e Acesso ao Ambiente de Aprendizagem através de Notificações para Suporte à Coordenação de Fóruns de Cursos a Distância

In this work, notifications to provide learners and mediators of an online course with awareness information regarding the unfolding of forums and other participants’ activities are investigated. In an asynchronous setting, participants need to check the forum frequently to know if there are new messages and whether and when mediators and learners are working. In the absence of this information, participants cannot organize their activities according to the group and waste opportunities to interact with each other. This paper presents two action research cycles in the context of the Information Technology Applied to Education online course and of the AulaNet LMS environment. Notifications presented in popup windows evolved into “action notifications” as they enable direct access to services in the AulaNet web interface through links and buttons.