A educação à distância e suas implicações no ensino superior

This research was as principal interest to verify the motives the prominence of crescent outstanding of distance education in brazilian higher education. To make real the study were used the bibliographical and field researches. The bibliographical informations permitted to conclude that the total success of distance education in Brazil strikes against two obstacles: the digital exclusion and illiteracy. These, in turn, have created another problem called today digital illiteracy. Although there are those limitations, by the data about distance education in the country, it is patent that this modality of education is gaining more and more space in brazilian educational process. It has to detach that the greatest concentration of distance courses accredited in Brazil occurs in higher education. Today, distance courses at this level in the country are authorized in sequential, graduation, specialization, master and doctorate areas. The field research led to confirm practically all suppositions about the increase of distance education in higher education, proposed in anticipation. The flexibility that makes possible the transmission of knowledge at any place and time and the new technologies, chiefly the Internet, were the factors that more impelled the increase of distance education in brazilian higher teaching. Meanwhile, the quality improving of the courses was the less significative in respect to the growth of distance education it the higher level in Brazil. But, this fact does not signify that the distance higher courses have not quality. On the contrary, the courses are ministered by professionals of confirmed competence. What can still legitimize the presence of quality in distance higher teaching is its exponential growth in the country. Moreover, the importance attributed to the pedagogical project well planned in distance higher courses demonstrates the interest by excellence in the distance learning. Certainly, when a pedagogical project is well delineated, at any level of distance teaching, the trend of quality is perfect itself.

A contribuição dos conteúdos programáticos dos cursos de graduação em administração para a implementação da cultura da excelência

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a contribuição dos conteúdos programáticos dos cursos de Administração para a implementação da cultura da excelência em empresas vencedoras do prêmio Qualidade RS. Este prêmio reconhece as organizações que mais se destacam na busca pela melhoria contínua do seu sistema de gestão, com base no Modelo de Excelência da Gestão (MEG). O que se propõe é a construção de um projeto político-pedagógico que esteja baseado no MEG, visando à formação de um profissional qualificado para empresas “classe mundial”. Para tanto, foram elaborados questionários, com base nos critérios e itens do MEG, para empresários e coordenadores de cursos. Foram obtidos resultados que levaram a uma nova proposta de pontuação para o método de avaliação do modelo, alterando-se os pesos relativos dos critérios. Por fim, foi proposto um novo modelo de currículo para os cursos de graduação em Administração, que permita que o aluno desenvolva a capacidade de compreensão da cultura da excelência, fundamental para o alcance da Classe Mundial nas organizações.