Controlo do aluno e avaliação no Ensino a Distncia (EAD) “ a experiência do Centro Naval de Ensino s Distncia (CNED)

Abstract

The learner’s autonomy in distance education is a decisive factor for him to achieve success, especially when dealing with second chance education, as it happens in distance education programs for recurring college study courses, taught by CNED. This autonomy manifests itself through the control exerted by the learner on his own learning process and basically depends on the following three variables: - Independence (the decisions that can be made by the learner according to what the learning system enables him to do); - Power (the ability to make those decisions); - Support (the resources that are placed to his disposition and that will enable those decisions to meet their goal). At CNED institution, the decision to evaluate learning is entirely the learner’s responsibility and he can be evaluated whenever and wherever he chooses to. In order to achieve this, CNED has developed for some years now a curriculum, which integrates a wide range of written tests that make use of a software management application.