Higher Education in Brazil: Determinant Factors at Distance Learning
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چکیده
The Higher Education by distance learning in Brazil has been growing substantially during the last decade. In this review that is presented here, a brief historical perspective of higher education in the national context, and the introduction of Distance Learning (EaD) will be addressed, considering recent changes, within the objective to identify determinant factors for distance learning at the higher education, emphasizing the guiding principles of the teacher in the teaching-learning process necessary in the 21st century.
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