EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA NO BRASIL: uma análise da experiência da UFMA do Maranhão

Abstract

The objective of the article is to present the results of the research directed to evaluate the process of implementation of the D.E Policy in Higher Education, having as an empirical reference the experience of the Distance Education Center (NEAD) - UFMA in the municipalities of São Luis and Humberto de Campos, with a view to identify the interference of different socioeconomic, cultural, political and institutional contexts in the dynamics of this process. The dialectical critical method is adopted to apprehend D.E as a phenomenon inserted in the broader of contemporary capitalist society. An evaluative research is developed having as object the process of implementation of the referred policy, from the experience of the selected municipalities. In addition to bibliographic, documentary and secondary data analysis, it is adopted the following methodological procedures in empirical research such as: focus groups involving policy beneficiaries and semi-structured interviews with managers, teachers and tutors of Nead and the studied poles.

Keywords

• state
• capital
• distance education
• higher education
• federal university of maranhão