Abed
The Brazilian Association of Distance Education is a non-profit scientific society focused on the development of open, flexible and distance education, created on June 21, 1995 by a group of educators interested in distance education and new learning technologies.
Its main objectives are:
- Stimulate the practice and development of projects in distance education in all its forms;
- Encourage the practice of the highest quality of services for students, teachers, institutions, and companies that use distance education;
- Support the country's "knowledge industry" by seeking to reduce inequalities caused by isolation and distance from large urban centers;
- Promote the use of different "media" in the realization of distance education;
- Promote the spirit of openness, creativity, innovation, credibility, and experimentation in the practice of distance education.
ABED's main scope includes institutions, companies, universities, and people interested in discussing and deepening knowledge in distance education. To this end, ABED organizes congresses, seminars, scientific meetings, and courses focused on the systematization and dissemination of knowledge in Distance Education.
ABED is a member of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science - SBPC, is affiliated with international institutions including the International Council for Open and Distance Education - ICDE and the OCW OpenCourseWare Consortium.
The ABED website features the trilingual "Brazilian Journal of Open and Distance Learning", dedicated to Scholars of Distance Education, texts and works on Distance Education, calendar of events, clipping of news from major newspapers, links related to Distance Learning, and addresses of distance courses. It is constantly updated, always focusing on associates and people who want to get involved with this area of pedagogical knowledge (www.abed.org.br).
ABED is composed of the following categories of associates: Individual Members: individuals interested in promoting distance education as an instrument of progress for democratic societies; Institutional Associates: legal entities interested in ABED's objectives; Honorary Associates: individuals or legal entities of remarkable knowledge and who, therefore, are distinguished by ABED and Maintaining Associates: legal entities that collaborate significantly to increase the work of ABED.
The main objective of the Association is, therefore, the increase of shared knowledge in distance education and the belief that such an educational modality is already a reality and an educational paradigm appropriate to the great changes of this millennium.
Management 2019-2023
President:
Fredric Michael Litto - Professor Emeritus USP
Vice-President:
Carlos Roberto Juliano Longo
Director of National Relations - Carlos Fernando Araújo Júnior - UNICSUL
Free Thematic Director - George Bento Catunda - SEE-PE
Ethics and Quality Director - Janes Fidelis Tomelin - UNICESUMAR
Director of relations with the productive sector - Jeferson Ferreira Fagundes - ARQUITETURA EDUCACIONAL
Director of International Relations - João Augusto Mattar Neto - PUC-SP
Director of Scientific Development - Liamara Scortegagna - UFJF
Financial and Administrative Director - Rita Maria de Lino Tarcia - UNIFESP
Public sector relations board - Welinton Baxto da Silva - SERES MEC
Ethics Council - 2020 - 2023
Andrea Filatro - Editora Saraiva - SARAIVA
Andrea Litto - Silicon House - SILICON HOUSE
Daniela Manole - Bridge3 Gestão Sustentável - BRIDGE3
Dyjalma Antonio Bassoli - Centro Universitário Cesmac - CESMAC
Evandro Luís Ribeiro - Rede Claretiano de Ensino - CLARETIANO
Fabrício Ricardo Lazilha - Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUC PARANÁ
Fellipe de Assis Zaremba - Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas - PUC CAMPINAS
João Vianney Valle Santos - Grupo Educacional Hoper - HOPER
Karina Nones Tomelin - EducaBox - EDUCABOX
Marco Antônio Araújo Junior - Meu Curso Inteleigencia e Tecnologia Educacional - MEU CURSO
Paulo Ricardo Torres Diniz - Centro Universitário Filadelfia - UNIFIL
Renato Bulcão de Moraes - Universidade Paulista - UNIP
Scientific Council 2020 – 2023
President: Waldomiro Pelágio Diniz de Carvalho Loyolla - P500 Soluções Educacionais - P500
Alessandro Marco Rosini - Universidade Anhanguera – ANHANGUERA
Alfredo Eurico Rodrigues Matta - Universidade do Estado da Bahia – UNEB
Benhur Etelberto Gaio - Centro Universitário Internacional – UNINTER
Betina von Staa - Betina Von Staa Consultoria
Cleunice Matos Rehem - Fórum Nacional das Mantenedoras de Instituições de Educação
Profissional e Tecnológica – BrasilTEC
Fernando José Spanhol - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC
Herbert Gomes Martins - Centro Universitário Ateneu – UNIATENEU
Iolanda Bueno de Camargo Cortelazzo - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – UTFPR
Jair dos Santos Junior - Santos Junior Consultoria - SANTOS JÚNIOR
Josiane Maria de Freitas Tonelotto - Centro Universitário Belas Artes - BELAS ARTES
Jucimara Roesler - Hoper Educação – HOPER
Leandro Henrique Magalhães - Centro Universitário Filadelfia – UNIFIL
Luciano Sathler Rosa Guimarães - Universidade Metodista – METODISTA
Luis Paulo Leopoldo Mercado - Universidade Federal de Alagoas – UFAL
Mara Cecilia Rafael Lopes - Centro de Ensino Superior de Maringá – UNICESUMAR
Rosana Amaro - Universidade de Brasília – UnB
Simão Pedro P. Marinho - Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais - PUC MINAS
Stavros Panagiotis Xanthopoylos - Kitutor Tecnologia em Informática – KITUTOR
Audit Committee 2020 – 2023
Ari Antonio da Rocha - Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado – FAAP
Cristiane Freire de Sá - Instituto Federal de São Paulo – IFSP
Danilo Santiago Gomes Valentim - Laureate International Universities – LAUREATE
Ivete Palange - Consultora
Lucy Ferreira de Almeida - Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo – PMSP
Rosa Maria Simone - R M Simone - RM SIMONE
INNOVATION BOARD 2020 – 2023
André Gomes Genesini - Educamos Online – EDUCAMOS
Fernanda Furuno - DreamShaper – DREAMSHAPER
Franklin Portela Correia - Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo – FATEC
Gilmar Luis Mazurkievics - Universidade do Contestado – UNC
Jocimara de Lima Mauer – GOMINING
Karin Sell Schneider Lima - Centro Universitário Internacional – UNINTER
Leonardo Carvalho - Universidade Corporativa Leroy Merlin - UCLM
Luís Carlos Carvalho - Foreducation EdTech - FOR EDUCATION
Paola Oliveira Cicarelli - Cuboz – CUBOZ
Rangel Garcia Barbosa - Kroton – KROTON
Ricardo Medeiros Priuli - Instituto Federal de São Paulo – IFSP
Viviane Marques Goi - VG Educacional – VG