Evasão nos cursos de licenciatura em educação a distância: o que dizem os egressos e os evadidos da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The present dissertation entitled "Evasion in undergraduate courses in Distance Education: what the graduates and evacuees of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora " was developed within the scope of the Postgraduate Program Education of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. Its main objective was to identify possible reasons for students' evasion, according to the vision of graduates and evaders of the degrees in Distance Education of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. Specifically, the objectives were: to map the opinion of the graduates and evaders on the course in EaD; as well as to understand if the vision presented by them has any relation with the reasons of the evasion. In pursuit of achieving the proposed goals, as well as bibliographic and documentary research was carried out a survey. In total, 85 people were part of the research, 55 graduates and 30 dropouts of undergraduate courses in distance education offered by UFJF. As theoretical and methodological frameworks in the contributions of Bernardete Angelina Gatti, Elba Siqueira de Sá Barretto, Marli Eliza Dalmazo de Afonso André, Daniel Mill, Elisa Guimarães de Oliveira, Maria da Assunção Calderano, Maria Luiza Belloni, among other. Based on the analysis, we can state that, on the other hand (distance learning education) is a professional improvement opportunity, however the lack of time to dedicate themselves to the course as well as problems to access TICs (information technology and communication) and the poles, are highlighted as key factors to the course waiver.