The Hybridization of Distance Learning in Brazil -- An Approach Imposed by Culture

dc.creator	Frederick Michael Litto
dc.date	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:14:27Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:14:27Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d0d0fd2d8f6c42d88ce3ce4965afd8eb
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/16867
dc.description	Institutions of higher education in Brazil are seriously behind in their development of approaches which make use of distance education techniques, in part due to widespread lack of credibility of these approaches both inside and outside academic communities, but even more so because of the highly centralized control over all aspects of higher education on the part of the country’s Ministry of Education. Despite the country’s capacity and need to do so, the rigid and pedagogically conservative attitude of this Ministry over the last three decades, combined with the equally intransigent and politically-motivated decisions of the National Congress, have discouraged practically all attempts by educational institutions, public and private, to invest significantly in the development of innovative and far-reaching initiatives employing distance learning methods. Hybridization, or the combination, in the same course, of face-to-face situations for learning with those carried out using distance learning techniques, represents in Brazil is not an option motivated by pedagogical choice, but rather the only avenue legally permitted in the field of formal, degree-granting higher education.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/65/133
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 2, Iss 2 (2002)
dc.subject	distance learning
dc.subject	face-to-face learning
dc.subject	online learning
dc.subject	university course planning
dc.subject	regulation of distance education
dc.subject	resistance to change in education
dc.subject	education in Brazil
dc.subject	Brazil-educational policy
dc.subject	distance education
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	The Hybridization of Distance Learning in Brazil -- An Approach Imposed by Culture
dc.type	article