This study highlights how tutors facilitate learning in distance education for Community Health Agents, suggesting key educational roles.
The present paper aims at dealing with the role of the tutor in Distance Education Learning, particularly in courses aimed at preparing Community Health Agents. We intend to approach the role of this tutor from didactic activities and also from practices experienced in basic health units, focused on promoting learning framed on concepts that generate reflection and also focused on allowing students to build their own knowledge. It is our goal to point towards the role of the tutor as one of the principal facilitators and mediators between the platform and the knowledge. The study was oriented by review of literature in the area. For such, we used renowned authors, specialists in the subject “the role of the tutor in the scope of distance education”. The analysis started from the conception that Distance Education is a type of teaching that offers several advantages, such as flexibility, practicity, time optimization, personalized learning, commodity, autonomy and independency. Thinking about a flexible model of education without limitation to predictable patterns is essential to assure the excellence of courses in fulfilling, in an efficient way, the participants’ demands and particularities. Keywords: Distance Education. Tutor. Mediation. Learning.
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