The collaborative management in the educational process in distance education

Abstract

This paper aims to comprehend from the benchmarks of collaborative management the processes of development and administration in the work of teams acting in the planning and production of a distance course. The research is based on the conceptual principles of dialectic-historic materialism, which seeks the mediate and immediate causes of a phenomenon in order to comprehend its historically intrinsic representations, arranged with Bakhtin’s dialogic matrix, harmonizing both the society and the individual. In this study, it is brought the conceptions of the creative and productive teams about their experiences in the collaborative work. The team is made up by professionals from the following areas: Educational, Hypermediatic and Video Design. The mediation between individual and collective decision making was pointed out as the essence of this management from the speech of the interviewed subjects. The results highlighted the decision making is empowered, both individually and collectively, by the shared network. It is not an easy task, because there are conceptual denials and approximations, conflicts and convergences, expectations and advances. It is in this process that the collective is lived, experienced and vivified.