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Chapter 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7401-1.ch008
Facebook and Moodle as
Classroom Extensions:
Integrating Digital Technologies
in the Curriculum
ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how autonomy, collaboration, and cooperation are built in a class designed to
use digital technologies for a teacher development syllabus. For the purpose of this chapter, data was
collected using an empirical-qualitative approach through active observation in participative action,
using a questionnaire and Moodle e-portfolio that addressed learning in several virtual tools including
Facebook. The final analysis demonstrates that it is possible to understand the autonomous and col-
laborative teaching and learning process when online tools such as social networks are used, and it is
also possible to determine students’ participation through authorship. However, such acknowledgment
requires that participants be prepared in terms of methodology, including teachers, and have the means
to consider accepting new ways of teaching through the cooperation enabled by social networks and
virtual learning environments.
INTRODUCTION
Communication and information technologies,
especially collaborative software available on
the web, are part of the young generation’s rou-
tine (Patrício & Gonçalves, 2010). According to
Capobianco (2010), such tools offer resources
to enhance educational processes, thus opening
new possibilities to improve traditional education.
Some college students already use social
network sites (SNS), as reported in national and
international research (Patrício & Gonçalves,
Nuria Pons Vilardell Camas
Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Neli Maria Mengalli
Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
Maysa Brum Bueno
Catholic University of Dom Bosco, Brazil
Renata Aquino Ribeiro
Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Monica Mandaji
Paulista University of São Paulo, Brazil