USABILITY OF THE “BE ACTIVE” DIGITAL PLATFORM: experiences in the training of university professors

Abstract

This work describes the processes of application and usability of the digital platform “Be Active” in the continuing training of professors of a university. Be Active is a digital educational platform created by a multidisciplinary team of a private university in the State of São Paulo. It allows the application, synchronously and/or asynchronously, of learning style diagnosis and active learning methodologies. Faced with the need to evaluate the platform's usability and its dissemination as an educational resource in university education, the objective was to conduct practical workshops using the resources of "Be Active" in the context of the continuing education of the professors. The methodological approach has a qualitative and analytical-descriptive nature, detailing the participant observation processes, elaborated through the description and presentation of the results obtained in the training experiences that consisted of practical workshops carried out in January 2023. The workshops were about diagnosing learning styles and the active Peer Instruction Methodology. The results obtained with the workshops demonstrate the importance of disseminating and using the digital platform “Be Active” as an innovative resource for teaching practice.