A demanda por educação à distância no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Renata Baião Fisher de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/16385
• topic: Distance learning; Industrial organization; Educação à distância; FIES; Organização industrial; Economia; Ensino à distância; Organização industrial; Fundo de Financiamento Estudantil

Recently, distance learning in higher education has shown strong growth in Brazil (33% per year from 2005 to 2013). This study crosses information from the Anísio Teixeira National Institute of Educational Studies and Research (INEP) and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) for every Brazilian municipality, in 2013, and proposes a list of factors that explains the demand for distance learning. Based on approximately 70,000 records, one of the results indicates that the demand has been restrained, not only by the supply restrictions imposed by the government, but also by the student loan policy (FIES), which favors on-site courses. For a reduction of 10 percentage points on the offer of FIES, an increase of 1.4 percentage points in demand for distance learning is estimated, suggesting that new commitments to expand the offer of this type of courses are an alternative to compensate for any subsidy cuts on the FIES program. Another interesting result is that the demand for distance learning tends to be higher in the municipalities in the Southern region of Brazil and in those with a higher search for courses in Education and Social Services.