Fluxo informacional como processo à construção de modelo de avaliação para implantação de cursos em educação a distância

The aim of the present doctoral dissertation is the construction of an evaluation model to implant and follow the courses on the distance education modality as a support on management of the Higher Education. The paper is focused on the need of a construction model able to assure the quality of the implantation and development of distance courses. As a theoretical basis for sustaining this work, national and international evaluation procedures analyses were analisyed. To fulfill this an analitic reason of the information flow is established as an instrument to reach the main objective. To fulfill this objective, a methodological normative/descriptive/applied approach is followed, with a qualitative predominance. As a result of this research, an evaluation model is presented is presented and the said model was submitted to a validity test by experts of the Ministry of Education in Brazil.