Abstract

MORGADO, LINA  and  COSTA, ANGELINA. Mapping of research trends in Distance Education and E-learning, in the decade of 2004-2013: an exploratory study in the Portuguese context. Revista Brasileira de Política e Administração da Educação [online]. 2018, vol.34, n.1, pp.53-71. ISSN 2447-4193.  https://doi.org/10.21573/vol34n12018.81245.

Higher education experiments complex moments of change to a worldwide extent. With the exponential development of technology and, therefore, the distance education and learning, where a new public has access to this level of education. Other factors like being, by its nature, a space for innovation in the relationship and construction of knowledge, scientific developments, particularly in education and technology, contribute to emerging needs analysis, evaluation and reflection of the scientific production, making it the substantial tasks of the academic community. This study aims to outline scenarios of future in distance education and e-learning, in higher education, looking at Portugal's position in the European context. It has been defined three stages of the investigation. Initially, it is intended to outline the state of the art of research on distance education and e-learning, in higher education, but go beyond, in a second moment, summoning discussion and reflection of the protagonists in the process. Thirdly, the prospects of national and European perspectives of specialists in this field will be faced up. Still, in the research process, we present here the global design of the study and preliminary and partial results of phase one of the research.

Keywords : distance education; e-learning; higher education; research projects; management; innovation.

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