Título: Online courses offered in Brazil: mapping the latest years’ context
Autor: Machado de Campos, Silvia; Henriques, Roberto; Yanaze, Mitsuru Higuchi
Resumen: [EN] This paper aims to map the supply of MOOCs in Brazil, starting from the
Godwin-Jones’ assumption that "MOOCs are neither open nor massive, but
often regular online simply courses that have been re-branded" (GodwinJones,
2014). At the same time, it approaches the Brazilian context, through
an exploratory and descriptive study, based on a qualitative and inductive
research strategy, divided into two main phases: the first step maps the
MOOCS offered by Coursera and Veduca portals, and the ones delivered by
the higher education institutions (HEIs). In contrast, the second phase
compares the evolution of a different category of online courses, other than
MOOCS: the accredited online undergraduate courses offered by HEIs,
through the longitudinal analysis of data from the Census of Higher
Education, between the years 2008 and 2013. It concludes that the courses
offered are not regular online simply re-branded ones, as there are different
provisions, but they are subject to the Brazilian particular regulatory
conditions.