Modelos de suporte utilizados no âmbito da formação a distância de magistrados no contexto internacional

Abstract

Being aware of the importance of e-learning within the current training structures of different professional contexts, this study aims to contribute to the modernization of the training practices implemented in the continuous training of magistrates, through an analysis of the pedagogical models of distance learning adopted by the countries belonging to the European Judicial Training Network (REFJ). This research, developed in 2014, adopted the following purposes: i) to identify practices of distance learning and/or in blended-learning; ii) to carry out a survey of the main existing guidelines at the level of planning, design and evaluation of distance learning and/or blended-learning training actions; and iii) to analyze the pedagogical models adopted at this level. This article focuses on the analysis of the results inherent to the international context, specifically the support models used in distance learning so as to develop a 'state of the art', in an effort to implement a pedagogical model of distance learning. The collected documents of 12 european countries constituted a corpus of conceptual data that allowed us to verify that there is an established effort for the implementation of distance learning devices in the training activity provided to the magistrates in service.