Production in multidisciplinary area: distance education in Brasil
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Distance education. Scientific production. Dissemination vehicle.Abstract
Research that identified the scientific community responsible for the scientific production in Distance Education in Brazil by CNPq Lattes platform. The research undertaken is exploratory-descriptive study, document and quantitative and qualitative approach involving survey, analysis and content classification, tabulation and interpretation of data. The research development was through the compilation of information provided by researchers across the curriculum insert Platform Lates CNPq. For data collection we developed a database in Access format that provided fields so they could build the profile of academic researchers, analyzing the construction of the scientific community and identify the main channels of dissemination of scientific production. The corpus consisted of researchers registered in CNPq's Lattes Platform, doctors working in public universities and scholars in productivity that had scientific related to distance education between 1998 and 2008. The main vehicle for disseminating scientific information in the area are the conference proceedings (64%) and periodicals publications (23%). It concludes that distance education is a multidisciplinary area, not yet consolidated.Downloads
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