Uma análise da educação a distância nas IES privadas no Brasil

Abstract

This research has as objective to analyze the Brazilian higher distance education market after the regulation of Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (as known as LDB) from 1996 and the impacts the University for All Program (as known as ProUni) and the mergers caused in the distance education market. It was made a bibliography research from secondary sources, the information was substantial to define the relevant market, data base and a structured of market led by oligopolies. It was made a descriptive analyze of higher distance education market between 1993 to 2017. The methodology used was substantiated on quantitative indicators, having as the main resource the National Institute of Study and Educational Research Anisio Teixeira (as known as INEP), Hoper Education and Ministry of Education (as known as MEC). The results found confirm that after the regularization of the distance learning with the LDB from 1996 had a big expansion of this method in the country, that was reinforced by the creation of ProUni that had a large agreement from private IES on 2005 and had your peak on 2013 with the merger that happened on the higher education market that was what made big educational groups with strong presence in the market, forming an oligopolized structure in this sector.