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Porto, Stella C. S.; Berge, Zane L. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2008
Distance education in Brazil has evolved more slowly than distance education offerings in other developing countries. This is because all aspects of Brazil's publicly-funded educational system are excessively regulated, highly bureaucratic, and tightly centralized. Such highly centralized bureaucracy and strict control has resulted in tremendous…
Descriptors: Poverty, Open Universities, Distance Education, Population Distribution