UNIREDE: a proposition for Brazilis long-distance public education and the actions taken in the State of Sergipe

Authors

  • Anicleide Pereira da Silva Núcleo de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe
  • Tiago Nery Ribeiro Núcleo de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe
  • Henrique Nou Schneider Núcleo de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Keywords:

UniRede. Distance Eduacation. Public politics.

Abstract

This article describes the experience of installing the Public Politics of Distance Education (DE) of theconsortium UniRede in national level and, in particular, in the State of Sergipe. The main aim is toanalyze the coming actions of this program and as it induces to new directions of the public politics withregard to distance teaching. UniRede is a consortium of several PIHE (Public Institutions of HigherEducation), which has as purpose in agreement with the Adhesion Term that created it, "potentializing theaccess to the public university teaching, as well as to contribute for the teaching-learning processimprovement towards Education, Science, Technology, Art and Culture areas in all its levels andmodalities practiced in those PIHE", by means of offering courses which holds the graduation, mastersdegree, extension and extended education levels at distance. It is believed that the creation of a nationalconsortium among PIHE as the one of UniRede, main aim of this study, is an important step for theinstitutionalization and accessibility of DE in the country, intending that projects as this serves asinitiatives to the establishment of public politics of fomentation to DE. However, during this studydevelopment, it was noticed the absence of continued actions by UniRede such as in national or regionallevel, as well as of the presentation of reliable results on the implanted and developed programs by thisconsortium.

Author Biography

Anicleide Pereira da Silva, Núcleo de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe


How to Cite

da Silva, A. P., Ribeiro, T. N., & Schneider, H. N. (2011). UNIREDE: a proposition for Brazilis long-distance public education and the actions taken in the State of Sergipe. Scientia Plena, 2(7). Retrieved from https://scientiaplena.emnuvens.com.br/sp/article/view/597

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