The MEC has published a decree with changes to offer a distance education in the degree courses; The institutions are two years old to adapt
Summary
The MEC has established new rules for remote education, limiting courses such as medicine to deal with the face -to -face and require minimal percentages of facial activities in others. The institutions are two years old to adapt and the students already enrolled follow the previous rules.
The Ministry of Education (MEC) published on Tuesday 20, the Decree no. 12.456/2025 With the new rules for remote education (EAD) in the degree courses.
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The standard has established, for example, that some graduations must be offered exclusively in face -to -face format. Other courses of health, engineering and education can also be only personally or semi -present.
The rules are already in force and the higher education institutes will be two years for the gradual adaptation of the courses.
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So the Earth Having collected important points to understand the changes in the EAD. Check:
Courses that can only be in person
The decree defined that five university courses can only be performed in face -to -face format. They are as follows:
- Right;
- Medicine;
- Nursing;
- Dentistry; AND
- Psychology.
THE Ordinance n. 378/2025Also published Tuesday, detailed that medicine will have to be completely offered through face to face. The other four should have at least 70% of the workload in facial activities.
Facial format -to -to -Face or semi -preservatory
Degree and technology courses in the areas of ::
- health and well -being;
- Engineering, production and construction; AND
- Agriculture, silviculture, fishing and veterinary;
The courses in these areas should have, in the semi -predesial, a minimum of 40% of facial activities and 20% of class or mediated synchronous activities.
In -Person or semi -presense format can also be offered degree, degree and technology courses in the areas of:
- Instruction; AND
- Natural, mathematical and statistics sciences.
These courses, however, must have at least 30% of face -to -face facial activities -prestsential and 20% of face to face or synchronous face -to -face activities.
And the other courses?
Higher education institutes can decide how to offer other degrees in one of the three formats: Face -to -Face, semi -preparatory or distance learning. The MEC, however, can still define other areas and courses formed for ODL.
Types of activities
The decree explains the different types of activities that can compose teaching methods within the established rules. Understand each of them:
- Face -to -Face Activity: It is that performed with the participation of the student and teacher or the other head of the training activity in a place and a period of time in coincidence;
- Synchronic activity: It is an EAD activity made with audio and video resources, in which the student and the teacher or other responsible for the training activity are in various places and time coinciding. For example: classes online in real time;
- Mediated synchronous activity: It is a real distance activity. It should be performed with a group participation of a maximum of 70 students for teacher or pedagogical mediator and control of the students’ attendance;
- Asynchronous activity: It is the distance learning activity in which the student and the teacher or other manager of the training activity are in different places and times.
Differences between distance learning, semi -predescent and face to face
The new remote learning policy has changed the rules for remote education and also for the offer of facial courses. In addition, it has created a new offer format: the semi -ratapperent. Understand each of them:
- Ead: Most of the workload are offered with lessons and activities recorded on digital teaching platforms. No course can be 100% from a distance; They must have at least 10% of the workload of the total course through face to face and at least 10% in class or mediated synchronous activities;
- Seeds -Presenza: Courses that have a minimum of activities and facial classes online in real time. They should offer at least 30% of the workload of the total course through face -to -face activities. In addition, 20% in mediated or synchronous face -to -face activities;
- In person: Courses with lessons with physical presence. In this format, at least 70% of their total work load through facial activities should offer.
Evaluations
The decree also states that educational institutions should apply face -to -face learning assessments in remote education courses.
These assessments should occur periodically, have a greater weight in the composition of the final degree of the discipline and include elements that encourage the development of the discursive analysis of analysis and synthesis, which make up, at least one third of the weight of the evaluation.
The last requirement can be revoked for the assessments carried out through practical activities.
Face -to -Face activity
The facial facial activities of semi – -representative courses and distance should be carried out at the headquarters of the institution of higher education, in distance learning centers or in professional environments equipped for this purpose and under academic supervision.
How are students already enrolled?
Students already enrolled in remote learning courses will be able to complete the course in the form of an offer for the registration act. In such cases, the institution should offer the course in ODL format up to the training of the class.
On the MEC page, ask other questions about New remote education rules.
Source: Terra
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