As competências do tutor na educação à distância

Abstract

The tutoring system in a distance education course is the primary factor in the course succeeds. The organization of a system of student support is of paramount importance, with this support, affective, administrative, technical, motivational and teaching, making students feel supported and can answer your questions, solve their problems and build a learning quality. So, being the central element in the teaching-learning processneeds to have its function, its practice and its role questioned, understood and studied. It is in this context that this paper intends to present its contribution, describing the core competencies of mentoring in EAD for the development of academic activities with excellence? A review of literature from books available was held at the FederalUniversity of Triangulo Mineiro library and articles raised the Virtual Health Library To select the articles were used as descriptors: tutors; mentoring; educacion virtual; teacher competence; competence y profesionales straightening; distance education and EAD. It was found that the powers and responsibilities of a guardian are multiple and must be worked on and improved constantly striving for quality in distance education. Tutorsmust have skills that enable students to explore all available resources in order to help to achieve the objectives set out in the course. Among these, there are the Pedagogical, Technological, Social (socio affective), Professional and Personal, Self Management and evaluative skills.