Abstract

TAROUCO, Liane Margarida Rockenbach; MORO, Eliane Lourdes da Silva  and  ESTABEL, Lizandra Brasil. The role of teachers and students as protagonists of a distance education model mediated by computers. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2003, n.21, pp.01-16. ISSN 0104-4060.

The learning in the virtual environment using new technologies o long Distance Learning makes possible for a bigger interaction between professors and pupils and a change of profile on both. The article briefly explains the meaning of Distance Education and the virtual education’s participants: students, professors, administrators, pedagogical supervisors, educational tutors, librarians, parents, governants and legislators. A comparative study is traced between the role of the traditional professor and the distance education’s professor and between the traditional pupil and the distance learning’s pupil. It presents some tools that allow a relationship of interaction and cooperation between them, enphasized by the videoconferência.

Keywords : Distance Education; Teacher; Student; Learner; Educator.

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