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Institutions of higher education in Brazil are seriously behind in their development of approaches which make use of distance education techniques, in part due to widespread lack of credibility of these approaches both inside and outside academic communities, but even more so because of the highly centralized control over all aspects of higher education on the part of the country’s Ministry of Education. Despite the country’s capacity and need to do so, the rigid and pedagogically conservative attitude of this Ministry over the last three decades, combined with the equally intransigent and politically-motivated decisions of the National Congress, have discouraged practically all attempts by educational institutions, public and private, to invest significantly in the development of innovative and far-reaching initiatives employing distance learning methods. Hybridization, or the combination, in the same course, of face-to-face situations for learning with those carried out using dist...
Information and Communication Technology and Distance Education in Brazil
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The analysis of the different methodologies of education adopted by the leading universities in their distance education courses may instigate the interest of the professors involved with distance education, in the process of choosing the methodology that better assists the students who cannot or prefer not coming to campus. For the universities that are introducing courses in the distance education one of the main challenges is to seek for the appropriate pedagogical language of learning carried on by multiple media available. The tutorship action is essential, being conclusive to the courses success. In this new model of education, the tutors act as a facilitator of the course rather than an specialized professor, because these courses are structurally less organized but focused on personalization, considering that the students are the responsible ones for taking care of its education. The main goal of this paper is to create a conceptual model of analysis to identify how the information technologies and communication is being used in the distance education courses offered by high education institutions in Brazil. With the data gotten through research the objective is to present a comparative analysis capable to identify the interaction ways and support given to alike students among the universities, in other words, groups that have similar characteristics with respect to the pedagogical projects of its courses, its materials, courses structure, ways of interaction between professor and student, students attendance, public, adopted technologies and valuation systems as well.
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The Electronics Revolution of the 1980s changed the nature of distance education, making it possible to groups as well as individuals at a distance in a pseudo face-to-face environment. In its infancy, distance learning did not provide the same level of credibility compared to traditional methods of education and training. However, the impact of telecommunications and information technology industries, joined by the arrival of the internet and World Wide Web combined with their popular usage, is a landmark from which there is no turning back. Nowadays training centers, business corporations and universities cannot ignore the distance learning channel. Despite the enormous potential of distance learning on the Web, the field of distance training is little known or understood. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview and analysis of the sector known as distance education and training. The progress achieved in recent decades can be charted, and the way to the future planned from well-known principles. For this purpose data are assembled from open and distant universities in Brazil. To consolidate the data, we will examine six case studies, of distance education establishments providing insight into their characteristics and advantages. The case studies show the contrasting solutions to the challenge of developing systems for students studying at a distance.