Educação a Distância - Elementos para pensar o ensino-aprendizagem contemporâneo

Abstract

In the current context of teaching, learning and assessment practice, it is important to bring up some reflections around the goals of education; the nature of distance education; the roles, training and strategy of teachers to manage the classroom and teach in cyberculture; the difficulties or challenges most often faced by students in distance education (DE) and the strategies they develop to do a good job in distance education; the creation of training environments through information technologies and communication etc. It is for this purpose that this work, from the Collection “Education at Distance” serves, composed of texts on fundamental themes for the understanding of distance education and the unfolding of the modality for effective learning. These are texts that contribute to thinking about education in general and distance education in particular, focusing on issues such as: -presence versus distance, from the etymological, philosophical and pedagogical point of view; -EaD contributions to lifelong learning and long-term citizenship; -specificities of teaching, with emphasis on their training, their knowledge and their practice in cyberculture, as well as as indications of new forms of class management and teaching-learning management; installation of challenges arising from the adoption of certain technologies, especially those that promote the promise of distance education: mobility of learning, knowledge and student; -the new challenges faced by students and the new strategies for studying in virtual distance education, from the -perspective of the students themselves students; the constitution of virtual learning environments that are actually educational, constituted to do better and differently and not just to do the same on new bases; -the need for librarians and libraries to adapt to the distance modality; -the challenges of evaluating learning in distance education and the evaluation criteria for this modality; the possibilities of new uses for emerging or even old technologies; and innovation as a possibility for improvement, through process management in distance education.