We present and discuss initiatives and participation in innovation projects for pre-service teacher training in the presencial and in the, new and necessary, distance-learning modalities, committed with a wider scale of enrollment and graduation figures. From the enrollment and graduation registers in Physics and related areas in 2003, and from projections of demand for the next ten years in different school levels, we concluded for the necessity of fully expanding of courses of pre-service physics teachers' education in the distance-learning modality, under the responsibility of consortia of public higher education institutions aiming, among other aspects of social relevance, to contribute to the development of inland scientific knowledge, still very deficient throughout the country.
in-service teacher training; presencial and distance-learning; teacher formation and new alternatives; physics teachers and demands of teaching
