Políticas públicas em educação a distância: uma revisão de literatura do caso de Moçambique

Abstract

This article presents the Quality Reference Framework adopted by the National Institute of Distance Education (INED), the public regulatory institution for distance education in Mozambique. INED is responsible for the evaluation of applications for the establishment of Distance Education institutions and programs, as well as accreditation of existing institutions and programs. Based on the literature review, the article provides an overview of quality assurance concepts and policies in Distance Education and, through documental analysis, the Quality Reference Framework adopted in Mozambique is described in terms of its main procedures and indicators. Finally, a brief note on the current and future work is considered. Emerging from the methodology being used, it was found that there are different models of quality assurance public policies in Distance Education and that in Mozambique there is an evidence of the use of Accreditation based model. The model is comprised by 7 key quality dimensions which are divided into 25 indicators in total and the result of the evaluation is expressed in 3 levels, namely an award of accreditation, conditional accreditation and no accreditation.