The research project "Quality in Distance Education: a longitudinal survey of teacher's training in federal programs" has prospected nine thousand teachers about critical achievements in distance learning courses. Our target public was students in a postgraduate course from 2006 to 2013. This article presents the results collected through the final survey instrument applied to 5,892 students. The data was analyzed and some detected constructs pointed to a definition of quality setting in the student's perspective, namely: teaching materials, pedagogical mediation, virtual learning environment, methodology, student academic and technical support. The qualitative assessment showed other aspects mentioned by the respondents. This paper also presents the analysis of an open question asking a free review of the course. Surprisingly, students nominated important aspects of the pedagogical process in distance learning such as teaching strategies, objectives, curricula content and their dynamics indicating that a distance learning mode course requires an active pedagogical mediation and the teaching-learning design must encourage collaboration.
A prática da mediação pedagógica em cursos a distância é tema recorrente nas pesquisas sobre EaD. Partindo do pressuposto de que a linguagem é condição necessária para a argumentação buscamos em Habermas,na Teoria do Agir Comunicativo, a fundamentação para o processo de mediação. A partir de uma pesquisa longitudinal realizada num curso de especialização a distância os resultados sugerem que o mediador pode contribuir para a autonomia e emancipação do aluno através do exercício do entendimento mútuo, assumido como um paradigma que orienta o processo de mediação pedagógica. Este trabalho tem por objetivo discutir os desafios e a importância da argumentação e da mediação na Educação a Distância.
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