Method for educational microcontent production.

Abstract: The article presents a comprehensive and detailed view of a method for educational microcontent production, obtained as a result of a doctoral thesis presented to the Faculty of Education of the University of Campinas, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The method systematizes didactically the practical orientations for producing digital content, to aid training actions aimed at multipliers from the areas of rural extension, technical assistance and technology transfer, with microtrainings through mobile devices. Nontraditional learning-teaching methodologies involve different actors of the educational process in different moments, from the programming of practical activities to the evaluation phase. In the proposed method, all actors participate in the didactic-pedagogical process. As such, apprentices/students and specialist/teachers play an active role, contrarily to traditional distance learning methodologies. The method of production of educational microcontent provides effective contributions for institutions of research, development and innovation (RDI), as the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), owing to the incorporation of concepts and fundaments from continuous formation, in the modality of non-formal education, through microtrainings.