O ENSINO A DISTÂNCIA UNIVERSITÁRIO E A UBERIZAÇÃO DO PROFESSOR

Abstract

The scope of the present is based on analyzing, in the light of the context of University Distance Learning, in the private sphere, about the possible uberization experienced by the teacher and the consequences for the in this context. As is commonplace, Brazil, especially in recent decades, experiences, in a substantial way, the process of massification of distance learning (Distance Learning), presented, even as an argument justifying the fact of a method capable of ensuring the process of inclusion and diversification of access to higher education, overcoming the traditional obstacles linked to the time of availability and geographical issues. However, the term massification should not be understood, in the context of the proposed clipping, as a synonym of democratization, because studies show that there is, in an increasingly clear way, a distance between the theoretical beacons of DL and the practice experienced. In fact, distance learning has presented a mercantilist aspect, whose essentially economic connotation becomes palpable in the context of private higher education. The cast and fragmented models that frame the DL call into question the social role played by higher education in Brazil, with special attention to a critical formation and the increase of the student as a thinking subject of the relationship. Typical and expected activities of the university academic environment, such as research and extension, are denied to the secondary role, when there are such elements in the distance learning-teaching process. In this line, the teacher, as a central figure in the process of knowledge mediation, in the context of face-to-face teaching, has his attributions distorted and the teaching practice is plastered with a previously established policy that finds as clearly limiting points the format established and incremented by the EaD. Thus, it emerges as the main problem to be established what are the possible impacts on the doing of the university professor in the face of the uberization of the teaching activity in the scope of Distance Learning in Private Higher Education? As a methodology, the research is conducted by the deductive scientific method and, regarding the confrontation of the proposal, as quali-quantitative. Regarding research techniques, this is a systematic literature review.