DISTANCE LEARNING IN TRADITIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION: A REFLECTION ON BRAZILIAN LEGISLATION AND THE WILLINGNESS AND PERCEPTION OF BENEFITS OF MANAGEMENT STUDENTS

Abstract

The present work aims to verify the willingness and the perception of benefits to the formation from the perspective of the students of the superior management courses, traditional modality, to attend curricular units in the distance learning - DL. The resistance of students in face-to-face courses to the proposition of distance learning units naturally occurs because students chose to study in the traditional mode. However, Brazilian law has encouraged the inclusion of distance learning units in face-to-face courses, allowing up to 40% of the workload to be integrated at a distance. The methodology is exploratory from the perspective of the survey of the Brazilian legislation that supports the expansion of the integration of the workload taught at a distance in face-to-face courses and also quantitative considering the results of a instrument, measured on the Likert scale, applied to 100 students in face-to-face courses at three different Universities. In the management area, in Higher Education Institutions - HEI with administrative characteristics and different levels of distance content insertion. The work shows that students have less resistance to distance learning, when the HEI have already consolidated the inclusion of distance learning in traditional courses. Students also point to a scenario in which distance learning can offer benefits to their education and learning. The work to verify that depending on the phase or level of insertion of DL in the Institutions, student resistance may be reduced and the benefits may be better realized.