The teacher’s role in distance learning: perspectives for the new professional

Abstract

With the expansion of the globalized world and the creation and expansion of technological resources and information systems, increasingly available and efficient, there are other needs and characteristics demanded by the general public, always seeking personal and professional growth. In this perspective, the objective was to investigate what roles and the basic teaching requirements in Distance Education. For this, we needed a theoretical study, seeking an understanding of technology issues and systems of information and history Education Distance over time. Distance education comes within a discussion and reflection of the ways that education will follow in the coming years, as the connectivity sources take shape every day, in referring to a globalized society, globalized, connected and online 24 hours a day. We analyze the role of the teacher in this process and we realize that the teacher no longer has a role to only pass on the information and becomes an agent processing, boosting the shares of transformation, which orients its students so that they can act with autonomy, discipline, organization and focus on your goals. Thus, it can be concluded that the fact that distance education is growing there is no evidence that this educational segment will surpass the classroom education, considered conventional, so far. The perceptions of the present study, backed by the authors who contributed to this discussion, we can see a huge growth trend this type of education and a prosperous and hungry field of qualified professionals, guideposts and that meet the requirements for the exercise of this new function within education. New technologies will drive this type of education to bring ease and convenience to students and academics and other responsibilities, challenges, goals and objectives for teachers.