The Challenges of the Implementation of Distance Learning at Professional Technical Education in Mozambique

• Autor(a) principal: Issufo Enoque Pondja Cherinda, Nilsa Adelaide
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Hunguca de Chovano do Rosário, Lina Sara
• 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.v9i2.595

One of the main objectives of the government of Mozambique in the area of education is to createconditions to expand opportunities for access to quality education at different levels of educationin order to train individuals with an intervention capacity for the country’s development and tofight the absolute poverty and to prepare the students for working market. Professional TechnicalEducation seems to be one of the ways to materialize this desire. To ensure that more citizens canhave access to education, the Mozambican government considers the Distance Learning modalityas viable ones. The purpose of this study, which is qualitative and exploratory, is to evaluate theexisting conditions for the implementation of EAD in Vocational Technical Education and toidentify the challenges inherent in the quality of courses. The results show some of the challengesto be considered before offering professional technical courses through the EAD mode are theconstitution of the management team of Professional Technical Education at a distance; The analysisof needs; The train of the actors; The dentification of the physical infrastructure and equiping it withadequate resources; The identification of the courses to be offered; The adaptation of the curriculaof face-to-face teaching into the specification of EaD; The production of study materials and theestablishment of a student support system.