Fundamentos da EAD e uma forma alternativa de vivenciar e aprender a engenharia econômica

Abstract

This works takes about the development and given of a distance course about Economic Engineering. Some studies were necessary to do this work, as conceptions about distance educations, laws, some characteristics about the distance education and its client, the student, and the necessaries components. It still shows an brief historical of distance educations, the learning environments, its evolution, the institutions that offer distance courses, a little of Brazilians history. It shows the objectives, advantages, and disadvantages of distance education. It still shows the tools for divagations and the receptions as impress material, audio and video, teleconferences and computer tools. This works still shows the environment and the management used to offer the course, some propitious facts for the success of a distance course and why to utilize the Internet and some of this characteristics. It shows some characteristics of learning approach; its application in distance learning and a view of collaborative leaning. It shows the strategies adopted to development the course, some client characteristics, about the teacher and tutor’s work and some characteristics about the course. It relates a brief conclusion about the course and gives some suggestions to improve the software used to control the activities in distance learning course.