Institucionalização da educação à distância na Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD) histórico, processos e fases

Abstract

The present dissertation deals with research that aims to analyze the Distance Education (EAD) institutionalization process at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD). The EAD was integrated with the UFGD, from its Program Open University of Brazil (UAB), through Cooperation Agreement n.01/2010 with the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), where one of its objectives was to expand Higher Education in the country. The research proposal is linked to the research project "Institutionalization of Distance Higher Education in the Federal Institutions of Higher Education of the Region Midwest". The interest for this theme is justified, considering the centrality that distance education acquires in the policies of access to higher education, of in accordance with the National Education Plan (PNE) 2014-2024, including the for reach of all people and in places far from the offer of higher education presential. The methodology used was based on documentary research, primary source information collected in the archives of the university in the period of 2010 to 2017. A bibliographic survey was also carried out with physical and online. The study is based on the theoretical and methodological neoinstitucionalista, which informs that the process of institutionalization is triggered in stages, which are: mobilization, implementation and institutionalization itself. The guiding question of the research is: How and in what way does the process of institutionalization of EAD at UFGD? It was possible to observe that the process institutionalization of the DAF in the UFGD begins with the induction of policies Federal University, specifically, the Open University of Brazil (UAB) Program. The adhesion UAB will provide institutional management, initiate measures to mobilize the institutional segments from the hiring of teachers, technicians and students who receive resources through scholarships for the coordination functions of courses, teachers and tutors. The involvement of the institutional segments enabled the favorable to the implementation of the structural conditions promoted by managers, which culminated in the construction and constitution of the Faculty of Distance Education the same organization of the face-to-face courses. There was also participation of representatives of the Faculty of Distance Education, together with the superior councils for deliberative purposes. The institutional management also incorporated other forms of expansion of the EaD in addition to the UAB courses, as was the case of the creation of the Literature / Pounds course linked to the Living Without Limits Program. Although the measures implemented reached the structural basis of the institution, to shield the process of institutionalization of the EAD from the resource containment effects which resulted in the construction works being stopped at the EaD. Therefore, the process of institutionalization of EaD implementation, but progressing to its effective institutionalization capable of to guarantee the desired expansion parameters in its Development Plan Institution and its autonomy in the development of the courses, as occurs with the courses in the face-toface modality.