QUALITY IN DISTANCE LEARNING FROM AN ECOSYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE

ABSTRACT

The objective of this essay is to reflect on the notion of quality in distance education in Brazil as a multiaxial object, retracing aspects of its historiography and relations mediations with ideals of constitution of societal evolution based on interactive mediations of a technological and productive base. The proposal is part of a critical epistemological perspective, encompassing the resignification of passing indicators of the preponderance of the large-scale economy and signatories of international evaluative models, with a view to new ethical and aesthetic perspectives. In the end, a new “distance education quality matrix” is proposed, based on the integration between human development and learning ecosystems found in this modality.

Keywords Human development; Distance Education; Learning ecosystems; University education; Quality