Cenários de futuro na Educação a Distância e Elearning no ensino superior em Portugal. estudo exploratório

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Angelina
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Morgado, Lina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v6i1.4070

Higher education experiments complex moments of change in a worldwide extent. With the exponential development of technology and, therefore, the distance education and elearning, new publics have access to this level of education. Other factors like being, by its nature, a space for innovation in the relationship and construction of knowledge, scientific developments, particularly in education and technology, contribute to emerging needs analysis, evaluation and reflection of the scientific production, making it the substantial tasks of the academic community. This study aims to outline scenarios of future in distance education and elearning, in higher education, looking at Portugal’s position in the European context. It has been defined three stages of investigation. Initially, it is intended to outline the state of the art of research on distance education and elearning, in higher education, but go beyond, in a second moment, summoning discussion and reflection of the protagonists in the process. Thirdly, the prospects of national and European perspectives of specialists in this field will be faced up. Still in the research process, we present here the global design of the study and preliminary and partial results of phase 1 research.