Physical Education's students at the University of Brasilia in Virtual Learning Environment and the characterization and habits of study during the course.

The students's sociodemographic characteristics in a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) course are diversified. These, may influence the teaching-learning process in VLE. The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics of undergraduate physical education's students distance of UNB and their study habits. There were 81 students in the study. The google docs tool for data collection was used. The descriptive analysis was performed by the statistical software Minitab 17. This study project was approved by the research ethics committee in humans, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Brasilia (CEP / CONEP: 03/20/2014). It was observed a predominance of males (51.9%), singles (54.3%) aged over 36 years (44.4%) paid jobs (90.1%) no graduation (84%) attending more than 5 subjects (74.1%), participated in a blended course or distance (60.5%), studying on the internet (38.3%) studying off the internet (63 %) up to 6 hours per week, preferably time to study between 6 p.m to 12 a.m  (60.5%) studying alone (86.4%), read just over half of the course content (49.4%). The preponderance of economic, social, demographic and educational characteristics may facilitate the teaching-learning process established in subjects and courses in the distance. However, these characteristics can help the development of strategies's mediation between the tutor and students seeking a more active and reflective participation of students.

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