The long-distance education has gained force in recent years in all the country. In Brazil, we have as precursory the International School (1904) with its courses for correspondence. We had other important landmarks: the Foundation Monitorial Radio (1939), the Brazilian Universal Institute (1941), the Tele-education (years 60), the Project Minerva and Telecurso 2000, the creation of the Brazilian Association of Education in the distance (Abed) in 1995 and the recognition of the EAD as modality of education for the MEC (normalized for the LDB in 1996 and 1998). The EAD in Brazil is regulated by the Law of Lines of direction and Bases of Educao Nacional (LDB): ‘ ‘ The courses in the distance that they confer certified or diploma of young conclusion of basic education for adult, of average education, the professional education and graduation will be offered by institutions specifically publish or private credential for this end (…) ‘ ‘ (Article 2 of Federal Decree 2,494/98). We count, here in Rio De Janeiro, with trust CEDERJ that exists between the federal Universities and state Cariocas, however total directed toward superior education. We have in the present some modalities of long-distance Education, as the Online modality, that are given courses total saw Internet.

In its majority they are free courses of update or same professionalization of basic level. The Half-actual modality minister courses where the pupil has of frenquentar lessons in the unit a time per week. In its majority they are courses technician and facultieses and some professionalizing courses of base regulated by regulatory gos. ‘ ‘ The long-distance education (EAD) is an educational modality in which the learning occurs with the use of medias, involving students and professors in places or times diversos’ ‘. (Decree 5.622? 2005). In the case of the calls free courses none of them depends on authorization of mec for functioning and in the case the Legislation on the total legal support all the free courses and of basic professionalization in the case of courses of basic professionalization in some cases and necessary to follow the determination of the calls classroom agencies as the COREN, CREA among others that some regulatory norms for this type of course prevem.