Abstract

VOGT, Carlos. Ensino superior público e as novas políticas de expansão e de inclusão: o programa UNIVESP. ETD [online]. 2009, vol.10, n.02, pp.01-15. ISSN 1676-2592.

In Brazil, the importance of university education as a way of producing knowledge and accomplishing professional abilities is facing a significant increase. In view of that, the Government of State of São Paulo has been adopting policies with a view to investing in programs of expansion of university education, aiming at both increasing the number of people able to attend the university courses and expanding the geographic distribution of such courses. Due to the physical limits imposed to the expansion of public university education in the State of São Paulo, a new concept arises - the virtual education system, offered by the program called “Virtual University of the State of São Paulo”. A concept of education that exceeds geographic limits. Such program, as one may infer from this essay, allows an increase in the number of people attending university courses at the three main public universities in São Paulo - USP, UNICAMP and UNESP - by using innovative methodology, which associates the intensive use of the information and communication technologies to the traditional practices of the teacher-student relationship with the quality of the university education.

Keywords : Higher Education; Distance Education; Information and Communication Technologies; Teacher-Student Relationship; UNIVESP.

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