Week 2
Legal requirements
Objectives:
Be aware of Brazilian policies for inclusive education;
analyse laws and standards application for online courses.
Activities:
Watch/read multimedia presentations
Answer online quiz
Take part on the Wiki tool activity
Introduction:
A Educação à Distância é uma opção para melhorar o nÃvel de escolaridade da população, além de ser um forma para promover a inclusão (social, digital, profissional, econômica, de portadores de necessidades especiais, de gênero). A EAD passa a ter existência legal no cenário educacional brasileiro a partir do Artigo 80 da Lei 9394/96, conhecida como Lei das Diretrizes e Bases. Nessa mesma Lei, no capÃtulo V, dedicado ao regramento da Educação Especial, o artigo 59 e seus parágrafos prevêem "a oferta de EAD para educandos com necessidades especiais".
O que mudou nas últimas décadas? Quais são as leis e regulamentos em vigor no Brasil atualmente?
Follow de links below to learn more about this subject. Once you feel prepared, take the online quiz to make sure that you understood the concepts.
Online quiz:
This quiz will consist of 5-10 multiple choice and true/false questions.
You will have 3 chances to pass the quiz. If they do not pass, you will be required to review the lecture before getting another attempt at the quiz.
Wiki tool:
Conduct an investigation to analyze laws and standards applications of Universal Design for online courses in Brasil.
What are the main problems you identify?
Contribute to collaborative document.
You will be graded for an original post and at least one reply to peer posts during this week. Posts must be related to subject, occur in the week while the topic is under discussion, expand concepts and encourage others to participate. Students will be graded for use of new arguments and relationship established with other parts of document.