CONCEITUANDO A EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA

Abstract

Currently, distance education is seen as a teaching-learning process, mediated using new information and communication technologies, where students and teachers are separated by the spatiotemporal distance. In academic literature, many authors have attempted to conceptualize this type of teaching, presenting common points, and emphasizing some characteristics. This research aims to analyze in the academic literature the concepts of Distance Education as some authors describe, thus its characteristics and the predominant models in the literature. Bibliographical research in books and scientific articles with authors related to this theme was used as a methodology. Resulting that the concepts and characteristics of distance education emphasize space-time, use of technologies for communication and interaction, greater autonomy on the part of the student to manage their learning and the importance of teaching-learning processes and their adequacy to pedagogical models.