Educação à distância: Estudo de caso sobre a qualidade do processo pedagógico do curso de Ciência Política da UEA.

Abstract

The education, today, requires alternatives to win the challenges to extend the productivity of the systems of education and the institutions of Superior Education, to guarantee quality of the education, to form professors adequately and to keep brought up to date them. In this search a process is had in the long-distance Education that would be a modality that substitutes the actual education and yes an alternative of education for Brazil, bringing up to date concepts and knowledge, not assisting in the permanent one taken of conscience of the professionals on the advances promoted in its specific areas e, mainly, generating continued processes of access to the knowledge accumulated for the humanity the millions of citizens. In this quarrel the considered pointers are analyzed as form to inquire the quality in the pedagogical process of EAD in the course of Science Politics of the State University of Amazon, being verified themselves: the support to the pupil and the professor; the infrastructure; the development of the course and evaluation of the pedagogical process. The collection of data was carried through next to the titular pupils, professors and assistants and coordinators of the course. After the analysis of the data we got resulted that they had signaled for significant pointers of quality what of certain form they knock down the myth of that the quality is precarious in long-distance ensign.