Abstract:

The learning object is understood as an educational resource that can be used as an aid to the teaching-learning process, and which has characteristics such as reusability, portability, modularity, interoperability, among others. It is known that e-learning is becoming an integral part of learning in the health area, being necessary, for this, the development of digital objects, which requires a collaborative and dynamic methodology. This paper aims to describe the experience of the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) - Brazil, in partnership with the Open University of SUS (UNA-SUS) project in the process of developing digital learning objects (DLOs), considering the Scrum methodology. The elaboration of an educational object runs through four sectors, with their respective micro processes: technical area (educational planning, content development, technical revision and validation), pedagogical (instructional design, normalization, orthographic revision), graphic design tables, graphs, etc. and definition of layouts), communication (videos and audios) and information technology (technological creation of resources). A workflow was developed considering the scrum methodology, an agile methodology for the development of projects based on transparency, inspection and adaptation of activities. This flow was executed with the aid of two technological software: smartsheet (for intersectoral activities) and trello (for intrasectorial activities). The main DLOs developed for the offering of distance learning courses were ebooks (in multimedia formats and pdf). The elaboration of a DLO has been carried out in an approximate period of 40 days, by multiprofessional team composed by an average of 30 people. On the last year, more than 70 DLOs have been produced by UNA-SUS / UFMA in the areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry and collective health in general, in response to the demand of the Brazilian Ministry of Health for the continuous training of health professionals, with free availability for the whole country. The production of DLOs is quite complex, due to its multiprofessional character and several steps necessary for its development. In this sense, it becomes necessary to use ancillary methodologies, which facilitate the development of resources with more agility and efficiency, in order to avoid the construction of ineffective DLOs in their reuse, portability and learning that they can provide.

Keywords:

e-learning, technology, health.