Educação a distância na formação de professores no ensino superior

Abstract

It is notorious that Distance Education, over the years, has been growing rapidly throughout the world. Distance education is marked by the emergence and expansion of new information and communication technologies. More and more citizens and institutions see this as a way to democratize access to knowledge and expand learning opportunities, making it more accessible to everyone, because breaking away from the traditional education model is launching a formative structure in which the process of building education is more authentic and inclusive, the great challenge of distance education. We realize that today the concern with offering quality education, with a view to the real formation of the citizen in the different social spheres, is to seek this social inclusion and respect from the government, the civil society, and the educational system, seeing the need to guarantee the universalization of basic education and higher education. Therefore, the general objective of this study is to investigate how distance education democratizes teacher education in the Brazilian context, considering that the importance of this type of education is growing globally and has become a fundamental instrument of opportunities for many individuals. As for the specific objectives: to report the brief history of DL and expose some concepts about the offer of higher education and teacher training through this teaching modality. Methodologically, this study presents the brief history of Distance Education: emergence, evolution, and some authors' concepts, through bibliographic research composed of authors and sociologists in the area, as well as scientific articles, books, etc., providing conditions for a debate on theories that support teacher education based on reflection and possible contributions to the construction of knowledge. In this context, the UAB emerges as an alternative to break down barriers. The evolution of Distance Education in Brazil is in constant transformation and, at every moment, new tools that help in the process of teaching and learning are being attributed to it. Thus, we can see that this process is continuous and that it cannot go backwards, but only get better and better, helping everyone who seeks knowledge through this type of education.