graduate courses which are taught on campus. External users have access to the site. Next 

semester the number of courses is expected to be 12 and the number of students to be over 

200. 

The Universidade Virtual [19] (www.universidadevirtual.br) has 38 students in 2 courses on 

education, environment, and political sciences. The Virtual University is part of a traditional 

face to face University. The University of Brasilia   UnB is a public institution, Federal Level, 

with approximately 15 000 students. This University, which is promoting the project 

Universidade Virtual has an excellent evaluation upon their courses and teachers. The project 

offering courses via the Internet has a reasonable acceptance by the teachers of UnB. 

Case Study 6: South America. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 

This case study is a transcript of an interview written by Ana Dias. 

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina   Laboratory of Distance Education (LED) [17] 

(

http://www.led.ufsc.br

) has 500 students and 17 courses in Ergonomics, Production 

Engineering, Information Systems Engineering, Applied Intelligence, and Education. LED 

started producing customized courses in 1995. Since then they have been developing courses 

using a combination of different media, and attending a large number of students. The courses 

are build after a diagnosis for the need of the institutions involved (public and private) and the 

students  identification, creating a specific methodology, planning, media production, 

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