Tutoria e formação humana no ensino superior a distância

Abstract

The present study deals with the relationship established between the current model of society and the objectives for the training of students in higher education, focusing on the educational process at distance. The impacts of changes caused by society's ―informationism‖ have been studied in areas such as culture, economy and society, but still needing further study on its impact on education and human development. A new age requires a new way to understand how these processes occur and how we can make them possible, beyond the technical, his gaze focused on education, but also for human development, with goals that allow us to conceive of a University the twenty-first century. The degree courses at distance mode offers the possibility of an educational process with the use of new digital technologies in virtual learning environments, such as new forms of communication and interaction that reconfigure the relationships between: space and time, teacher and student, especially education and academic training. Therefore, the central thesis focuses on the need for tutors, teachers directly responsible for interaction with students in distance learning, exercising their autonomy in the selection of mediation strategies that make their students learn effectively and freedom for making decisions about their practices in the classroom, for an effective Distance Education.