T-MindMap: A distance education forum as a mental map via Digital TV

Abstract

The number of Brazilians who are enrolled in educational distance courses has increased significantly in recent years. This type of education has as great ally, the Internet. Unfortunately, in Brazil the majority of the population has no access to the Internet in their home, which is an obstacle for those who want to take a distance education course. The present work explored the features offered by Brazilian Digital TV to implement a high fidelity functional prototype of the T-MindMap application, which offers discussion forums through mental maps as an tool to the teaching and learning process in the distance education model.