PERSPECTIVAS TEÓRICAS DE OTTO PETERS PARA A EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the pedagogical-didactic proposal presented by Otto Peters, a specialist in Distance Education (EAD), in his works A educação a Distância em transição (2004) e Didática do ensino a distância (2006) whose reflections have reasoned insights and discussions on this teaching modality.Peters in his studies, claims to be adept at self-learning, pointing out that students should have more autonomy and freedom within the distance education process.He was a pioneer in theorizing on EAD. Worried to formalize a concept of education, highlighting the need to organize the methods of teaching and learning to a new model of teaching and learning that uses different parameters of traditional education. In this research, a qualitative literature and presented the main features of the understandings of the author and reflected on the importance of using reflections produced by this among researchers of our country.During the research others have been used as a theoretical contribution to reflect on the history and the changes made by this mode of teaching, such as: Peters (2004, 2006), Belloni (2009), Moore (2007), Kearley (2007), Maron (2004), Oliveira (2008), Dias (2010), Leite (2010), Saraiva (1996), among others.