Análisis del portal educativo PerúEduca desde un enfoque multimodal

Abstract

Educational portals are places of access to the Internet, mainly planned for a formal educational environment. In them, users access digital services and products validated by the institution that manages them. Thus, in a way, the portals become the public representation of such an institution. This article investigates the PerúEduca portal, with the purpose of analyzing two specific section, the Home page interface and the repository of educational resources. As PerúEduca is a powerful platform, it becomes a very powerful learning tool that shapes distance education experiences for thousands of users. Thus, it is necessary to optimize its use. The analysis was carried out according to the multimodal framework for analyzing websites proposed by Pauwels (2012). The results showed that PerúEduca is perceived more as a news provider than as an interactive educational platform. The portal does not show accessibility principles and some functions depend on login. In the repository, users access the knowledge produced by others, without generating contributions. One third of the resources are digital reproductions of printed books and about half are not easily usable since they are not indexed to the search button. It was also evidenced that the majority of resources belong to the secondary level, to the area of ​​science and technology, and that there are few of national authorship. The results show that it is necessary to decentralize the generation of knowledge and promote the active participation of users.