Applicability of the Reuven Feuerstein mediated learning experience theory in distance education

Abstract

The article presents the Reuven Feuerstein approach and the Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) technique relating its application in Distance Education (DE). A bibliographic review was carried out in the works of Bertelli, (2002), Da Roz (2004), Gomes (2002), Fonseca (2000), Meier and Garcia (2007) among other scholars of Feuerstein’s theory. It includes the report of the experience carried out during the course of Mediation and Evaluation in the DE, in the Course of Improvement in DE in the ambit of UAB / UFMG, in 2012, with the production of didactic material and training of tutors. It seeks to present the Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) and its implications for the tutor’s educational practices in DE. It is concluded that the use of the criteria of mediation with students of online courses, focused on the success in the assimilation of contents and the formation of socio-cultural values, tends to collaborate to a learning that meets the current demands by subjects who are able to learn autonomously in a world with intense flow of information enabled by technologies.