The Status of Educational Technology in Brazil

Abstract

The paper presents a brief overview of the development of educational technology in Brazil, and analyses examples of successful and unsuccessful projects, particularly in the field of tele‐education. Other developments with little media are also analysed, mostly in terms of their impact. A final section presents a critical assessment of the contributions and shortcomings of educational technology in Brazil. The results are not irrelevant, but there are critical remarks about the limited role played by educational technology ideas and instruments, as well as about the movement's failure to solve critical problems of quality and quantity.

*The author wishes to thank John Stone, Roger Walker, Angela Mazzi, Apaiecida J. Gouvea and Herbert Marchl, all of whom gave interesting suggestions for the present paper.

Notes

*The author wishes to thank John Stone, Roger Walker, Angela Mazzi, Apaiecida J. Gouvea and Herbert Marchl, all of whom gave interesting suggestions for the present paper.