Distance Education (e-learning)
The Department of Distance Education (SEAD) is the body responsible for promoting educational and training initiatives within UFES’s distance learning programme, in which the didactic and pedagogical interaction between teaching and learning processes takes place through the use of information and communication technologies, in the virtual learning environments, and in person at municipal venues, in support of the Open University of Brazil (UAB) and other educational settings.
The process of developing public policies for distance learning in Brazil began with the definition of guidelines and foundations for national education, in which the government began to play a role in encouraging the development of distance learning, establishing it as an effective tool for democratising access to higher education and an option for professional qualification.
Website: www.neead.ufes.br
Its responsibilities are:
- To facilitate the democratisation of access to higher education and professional training, including for students from diverse social backgrounds who, for various reasons, were unable to access such opportunities;
- To provide, in partnership with the Open University of Brazil (UAB) and other programmes run by the Ministry of Education (MEC), high-quality professional and humanities education (both initial and continuing) to a large number of citizens, so that this university may contribute to addressing social inequalities and have an impact on human and social development, at both the individual and societal levels;
- To foster the sharing of scientific, artistic and cultural knowledge;
- To maintain the availability of e-learning courses in order to meet local and regional demands;
- To maintain constant contact and cooperation with local councils, municipal and state departments, and the Ministry of Education (MEC), in order to offer e-learning courses of the necessary quality, in accordance with the legislation and regulations governing the provision of such courses;
- To provide consultancy and support services to UFES units in order to develop and implement e-learning projects, as well as initial and continuing education programmes, to be offered to the general public and for teacher training;
- To encourage UFES professors and researchers and provide them with educational and technical and material support, so that they may produce and share the results of their studies and research and participate in teaching projects, whether in person or e-learning classes;
- To participate in programmes run by the Ministry of Education (MEC) and to propose and create the conditions for virtual learning environments and for the development of UFES’s academic communities, e-learning centres and other educational environments;
- To monitor the infrastructure, technical and staffing conditions at the e-learning centres, in order to maintain the quality of the educational processes involved in the e-learning system offered by UFES.
The Department of Distance Education (SEAD) is organised as follows:
- Department of Distance Education
- Academic Directorate
- Administrative Secretariat
- Coordination of Virtual Learning Environments
- Coordination of Web Conferences
- Academic and Administrative Secretariat for Courses
- Instructional Design Laboratory
Secretary for Distance Education: Maria José Campos Rodrigues
Location: University Theatre, Ground Floor, Goiabeiras Campus, Vitória/ES.
Address: Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, Goiabeiras, Vitória/ES. Postcode 29.075-910
Email: neaad [at] neaad.ufes.br
Website: www.neaad.ufes.br
Telephone: +55 27 4009 2208
