In Lithuania, the Life Long Learning process is realized through universities, colleges, vocational schools, adult education centers and other relevant institutions. Thus a Life Long Learning system should be established at all education levels - vocational, tertiary, etc. There is a widespread consensus in the Government and non-governmental educational sector institutions that Distance Education and training has enormous potential to tackle the new challenges. Significant policy groundwork has been laid for the development of an advanced and comprehensive distance education system. The major initiatives fostering Distance Education development are: The Government investment project „LieDM (Development of Distance Education in Lithuania 1998-2005)“, the „ITMiS -Information Technologies for Science and Studies“ program initiated by the Ministry of Education and Science, and Phare2000 projects for the development of Regional Distance Professional Training Infrastructures in Klaipeda, Taurage, Marijampole and Utena regions. The goal of this Master thesis is according the analysis of the experience of European countries in development distance education and investigation of main tools of distance courses design, to promote the development of distance education in Panevezys region.

The distance Education in the teacher s formation and the introduction of the technology of information and communication is the educative innovator example in the global world. That research about the run away of the course in school and the nowadays challenges is characterized as the distance formation destined to the teachers, coordinators and directors of public schools of the world s public net, with the objective of favour the necessary base to the Technologies of Information and Communication utilization, in Special TV and video. This work had as aim to investigate the causes that took the frequenter teacher to run away from the course, once in Alagoas as the other states, there were a meaningful number of ran away. We look for area s references and subsidies to increase the quality of EAD, especially the extension course of TV in school and nowadays challenges. The utilized methodology was the study of a case, based in many sources of evidences, as documentation, consultations, interviews and questionnaires to the data collecting. The realized research involved the bibliographical data research, data collecting, to compute and data analysis. The obtained results demonstrate that the causes of the run away is related with the personal origin problems, substructure problems and problems with the pedagogic support, being the timeless for the activities excess the principal factor of the run away, taking us to rethink about the existence of the social structures that place between the education and the whole society. The research identified the causes of the run away is the context of the EAD, contributing as source of the informative knowledge that allow the decisions made and joined to the futures editions of the course offered to the teachers in work. / A Educação a distância (EAD) na formação de professores faz parte de um modelo educativo inovador no mundo globalizado. Esta pesquisa sobre evasão nos cursos a distância enfoca o Curso de Extensão TV na Escola e os Desafios de Hoje, destinado a capacitação de professores, coordenadores e gestores de escolas públicas de Ensino Médio e Fundamental da rede pública do país, com o objetivo de favorecer o embasamento necessário para utilização das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação, em especial TV e vídeo. Este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar as causas que levaram o professor-cursista a se evadir do curso, uma vez que em Alagoas, como nos demais estados, houve um número significativo de evadidos. Buscamos referenciais na área, e subsídios para aumentar a qualidade da EAD, especialmente do Curso de Extensão TV na Escola e os Desafios de Hoje. A metodologia utilizada foi um estudo de caso, baseando-se em várias fontes de evidências, como documentação, consultas, entrevistas e questionários para coleta dos dados. A pesquisa envolveu levantamento de dados bibliográficos, coleta de dados, tabulação, análise dos dados. Os resultados demonstram que as causas da evasão estão relacionadas com problemas de origem pessoal, problemas de infra-estrutura e problemas com o suporte pedagógico, sendo falta de tempo por excesso de atividades os fatores principais da evasão, levando-nos a um repensar sobre a existência das estruturas sociais que permeiam a educação e a sociedade como um todo. A pesquisa identificou as causas da evasão no contexto de EAD, de modo a contribuir como fonte de conhecimento informativo que permitam tomadas de decisões acertadas junto às futuras edições dos cursos ofertados aos professores em serviço.

Flera studier visar att det tillitsfulla mötet är viktigt inom folkbildningen, men hur skapas det i det digitala rummet? Studien syftar till att bidra med kunskap om strategier och pedagogiska praktiker som stärker det tillitsfulla mötet och skapar en lärmiljö där deltagarna kan vara öppna, dela sina erfarenheter och lära av varandra i nätbaserade kurser. Undersökningen har inspirerats av en designbaserad forskningsmetod. Sju kursledare som arbetar med nätbaserade kurser i ett studieförbund har deltagit i samtal, reflektion och testat olika pedagogiska strategier och praktiker i sin verksamhet. Studien tyder på att det går att skapa tillitsfulla möten även i grupper som inte mötts tidigare och som bara möts under en kort tid. En förutsättning är dock social och pedagogisk närvaro och att kursledaren investerar tid och energi samt arbetar medvetet för att skapa en grupp och ett öppet klimat.