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Perspective on Distance Learning - Brazil
Prof. Itana GimenesUniversidade Estadual de Maringá
www.uem.brCurrent Visiting Professor at MCT
Brazil
• Population: 190M (2010)• Education is in Portuguese (all
levels)• ~ 12% of the population has
access to higher level education (undergraduate courses).
Education
• MEC – Department of Education and Culture (www.mec.gov.br)
• Higher level education is provided by (public or private):– Universities– University centres– Faculties– Federal Institutes
• Together they offer ~ 29.000 courses (2009)
Evolution of Higher Level Education Institutions from 2000 – 2009 (www.inep.gov.br)
Distance Education
• MEC/CAPES is a sector that originally supported the qualification of University staff. Currently it:– regulates and approves postgraduate programs– has a division that supports distance education
within the UAB system (Open University)
• MEC/SEED – special sector of MEC for Distance Education
UABwww.uab.capes.gov.br
• UAB is the translation of OU, but it is not a physical place or institution. It is an integrated action between MEC/SEED and DED/CAPES (Created in 2005).– It is a system (project) that aggregates the current
distance education courses;– Courses are offered by Federal and State universities;– There are regional centres that support the universities– Courses are mainly: undergraduate and “lato sensu”
postgraduate (diploma);– There are not research programmes.
Evolution of the number of registered students and teaching mode 2001-2009
Distance EducationDistance
Education
Overview of the Courses (2009)Distance Education
Course Registered %
Total 838,125
1 Pedagogy 838,125 34.2
2 Management 228,771 27.3
3 Social service 68,055 8.1
4 Literature 49,749 5,9
5 Accounting 29,944 3,6
6 Mathematics 19,626 2,8
7 Biology 19626 2,3
8 History 16,864 2
9 Social Communication 15,802 1,9
10 Environment 13,091 1,6
Others 85,956 10,3
Current UAB data
–92 Institutions involved; –587 regional centers;–950 courses;– There are courses in Mozambique.
PNPG 2005 – 2010 and 2011 -2020
• National plans for the postgraduate program system– Emphasizes the need to qualify basic education
teachers of the public sector;– Currently there is call for course proposals.
Initiatives
• Recent example - PROFMAT: professional master course on mathematics offered by a pool of Universities (2011)– 20.000 candidates for 1.192– Grants offered for public school teachers by MEC.
Conclusions
• Distance education comes from public and private sectors.
• Brazilian government – has set public basic education as priority;– It has been increasing investment in research;– It has been expanding the number of courses in
public universities (evening courses);– Postgraduate programs are increasing.
• Distance education tends to increase in the same proportion.