What does the Education Area disclose about Quality and Innovation related to Distance Education?

• Autor(a) principal: Real, Giselle Cristina Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Pott, Francielle Priscyla, Souza, Regina Farias de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EAD em Foco
• Texto Completo: https://eademfoco.cecierj.edu.br/index.php/Revista/article/view/1683

The article explains research results that deal with distance education from the perspective of the educational field, focusing on the concepts of quality and innovation. This triangulation is built by the centrality that these themes assume in the educational context, based on current educational policies. This is a systematic literature review research, using the Scielo database as a research source, considering all its sixteen international and the one national collections. Twenty-six articles were found between 2007 and 2017, of these twenty are about quality and six discuss innovation, showing a greater concern of the field with the theme of quality over inovation. This study also showed up that among the analyzed collections, the Brazilian educational field presented the highest production, followed by South Africa, Costa Rica, Mexico, Portugal and Cuba. The papers analyzed indicate aspects that must be attended to offer quality courses. These are indicators that involve three aspects: i) initial educational inputs, such as: learning environment, infrastructure, teaching material, communication systems, internet, computers, instructional design of the course; ii) process indicators: academic management; formation of a multidisciplinary team; forms of interaction: student-teacher and tutor interaction / and student to student interaction; and iii) assessment processes: innovative assessment instruments; performance evaluation, dropout rates, ways of diagnosing student satisfaction. In this way, it was observed the necessity of more research with an empirical focus, in a longitudinal character and the formation of a network of researchers as a suggestion for the field of education to expand its potential to contribute to the theme. Keywords: Distance education. Quality. Innovation