Pedagogia e educação a distância: características e demanda

Abstract

This work Completion of course was organized from the question: What are the characteristics of distance education and its demand in Higher Education? And has the objective: Know the Distance Education and its demand in higher education, particularly in relation to pedagogy course. And, by specific objectives: Conceptualizing the distance, considering the evolution of technology and the relationship between education and technology; Analyze the protagonists of this educational process, identifying the necessary roles of teacher and student characteristics in distance education; Meet the teacher training through distance education and their characteristics. The research was developed in the form of digital literature and research, with resumption of themes and contents worked over the course of Pedagogy and the search for print and digital sources on the subject under discussion, considering the constant challenge of education in general, and particular distance education, to create conditions so that, beyond the transmission of information, also the process of knowledge construction occurs. At the end, the text includes guidelines which may be a reference to the institutions engaged in teacher education in the distance mode