BRIEF DISCUSSIONS ON THE DISTANCE EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC POLICIES FROM THE 1990S TO THE CURRENT MOMENT

The present work adopted as theorical and methodological guidance the research of qualitative nature, having as methodological procedure the bibliographical research. It aimed at analysing the Distance Education, direct or indirectly, in its different aspects: theorical, social, historical and political. With this study it is verified how the Distance Education became strong and continues to get stronger, by means of its own historicity and development, to the used and developed technologies, to the legislative contributions promulgated from the decade of 1990 in Brazil, as well as some propositions, in the sense of, contributing for the discussion in the policies of implementing the courses of this modality.