Abstract:

Using social networks for education has been more and more debated and researched, considering that the students already use them on a daily basis and that characteristic can help improve the learning process. In this context, a research was conducted with the main objective to investigate how Facebook can be used as a Learning Management System (LMS) to teach Organic Functions in English Language. This article describes how the transdisciplinary digital classes were conceived using Organic Chemistry content in English Language inside a Facebook group, working as an LMS. This transdisciplinary proposal generated an e-book with the technical and pedagogical instructions, conceived during the research development process in the Professional and Technological Education Master Degree context. At the beginning, a research on academical studies that already used Facebook as a LMS was made, showing different learning and teaching strategies using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Afterwards, this study was dedicated to design teaching and learning strategies in praise of Edgar Morin’s Complex Thinking Theory and using as basis the literature review’s knowledge. The digital classes were applied in a second semester class of a Chemistry Course of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The students then evaluated the digital classes' contribution answering questionnaires that also allowed identifying the technological profile of these participants. Their answers made Facebook’s viability as a LMS very clear, considering that 92,3% of the students evaluated positively the activities developed.

Acknowledgements:
IFRS, ProfEPT.

Keywords:

Organic Chemistry, Facebook, LMS.