Formação docente e educação a distância: um estudo do cenário educativo de Santa Catarina

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8077.2012v14n32p9The Teacher training is an important factor in the struggle for quality education in Brazil. The promulgation of the LDB in 1996, has the challenge of training new teachers, and it occurs at Distance Education a great alternative for access to public higher education. The DL is defined as educational approach that uses technology to bridge the gap between IES and students, and in this context appears the Open University of Brazil (UAB), currently the main policy of teacher education through distance education. The purpose is to provide teacher training policies included in the state of Santa Catarina, and detailed the UAB in the Brazilian and catarinense and analyzed the inclusion of TIC’S in schools in Santa Catarina as a mechanism to promote and encourage the use of distance education as an educational proposal.