Gestão por competências na educação a distância: possibilidades de criação de diferencial formativo para os tutores

Abstract

Distance education is, in actuality, a key element to access a growing number of students at different educational levels. The technologies provide various forms of interaction and which undoubtedly contribute greatly to the spread of knowledge and skills of a larger number of people. In this new context, an actor plays a major role: the tutor. It is he who will mediate contact between the content covered in the courses, teachers and students. More than that, it has outstanding performance in administrative and bureaucratic tasks of EAD. Accordingly, this article seeks to discuss how management skills can contribute to the management of the tutors involved in the Open University of Brazil, in order to improve their practices on students. For preparation of this work was carried out a qualitative study of stamp literature on the topics: management skills institutions, tutoring in distance education, tutoring at the Open University of Brazil and the possibilities for integration between management skills and distance education.