Resumo:
This work demonstrates a descriptive and analytical that Brazil has an educational context and cultural diversity of a large area and breaks traditional paradigms. Technological innovations have led an unprecedented impact on our society in the second half of the twentieth century. We call the society we live in today's information society and distance assumes an important role in the educational context and the training of teachers in this type of education. The implementation of undergraduate courses in the distance at public universities reveals a concern with inclusion and accessibility to public higher education. But it is still in full to register twenty-first century media in the globalization of information, this type of education presents difficulties when it comes to teacher training by the Open University of Brazil Polo Valencia in Southern Bahia. Teachers who attend graduate students in distance education to play multiple roles and contrary to common sense, are essential for success in student learning. The complexity in the process of teaching and learning in distance education lies in the interaction and the individual that are related to internal factors such as motivation, interest in building an effective pedagogical practice and construction of an autonomy, as well as external factors such as distance, time and inability to handle the technological apparatus and the relation between theory and practice.
