Distance learning: Elitism or an alternative for democratisim education?

Abstract

This work, through an historical retrospective, contextualizes the method education from distance in the present society. It analyses the megauniversities and their expansion as well as the methods and technical resources used by them. It also analyps the advantages and disavantages, the acute issues, the challenges and perspectives of this teaching system as well as the possibility of making teeching more popular.

Keywords

• educação à distância
• democratização do ensino
• megauniversidades
• tecnologia