A evasão no curso de especialização em Gestão Educacional à distância da UFSM: perspectivas e desafios

Abstract

The Distance Education in its current configuration has enabled many people to continue their studies. However, despite the growing demand for courses of this modality, the percentages of evasion are quite high. This research, featured as a case study of qualitative and quantitative nature has as main objective to describe the importance of a democratic and participatory management to reduce evasion rates, and get quantitative data on evasion classes who have completed the course specialization in Distance Educational Management Course from UFSM; know, the strategies created by the Coordination and the Poles to prevent students leave school, seek between tutors and distance data on the causes of evasion and analyze the procedures used by the entire management team to minimize this problem. Data collection was done in two steps, through a documentary research, which analyzed all the transcripts of students, and through a questionnaire distributed to managers.