The academic discourse of the instructional process in the framework of distance education

Abstract

The instructional process that occurs in the different careers offered by the National Open University (UNA) is mediated by an Academic Discourse (DA). With this article, the intention is to present the progress of a research in progress on the academic discourse of the instructional process in the framework of distance education. As theoretical support they are taken in postulated considerations referring to the pedagogy of discourse, academic discourse, distance education and discursive strategies. The selected methodology corresponds to the phases used in Participatory Action Research (PAR), because it implies a dynamic that favors the generation of changes in social and educational practices. These phases imply a diagnosis, building action plans, the execution of these plans and the permanent reflection of those involved in the investigation, which allows resizing, reorienting or rethinking, new actions in response to the reflections made. A first approach was made with reality (as an initial part of the diagnostic phase) with the participation of the actors involved in university dynamics who consider that the DA used in UNA is satisfactory; however, it can be improved, among other reasons, with the use of ICT.