Analysis of the graphic-information elements of the educational animations in health in the distance education/Analise dos elementos grafico-informacionais das animacoes educacionais em Saude na Educacao a Distancia

As the demand for distance learning courses grows, the importance of developing quality learning objects is perceived. These are the educational materials that support and improve the teaching-learning process through the use of multimedia resources. Among these resources, it's the animation which is a learning object that is used to represent abstract situations, instructions, contents, processes and procedures in learning context, through a more comfortable way and with less cognitive effort. In this way, with the growth of distance learning courses in the health area and the increase of educational animations uses its improvement and verify if those educational objects on their graphic-informational aspects obey the Cognitive Multimedia Learning Theory are necessary. As a methodology, an analytical study of graphic-informational aspects was made. In the analysis was observed aspects of Cognitive Multimedia Learning Theory in the animations and the variables of animation presentation. As results analysis and summary about the animations also proposals for improvements and animations pattern were observed.