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This research addresses the use of information management
processes in order to extract student dropout indicators in distance
mode courses. Distance education in Brazil aims to facilitate access to
information. The MEC (Ministry of Education) announced, in the
second semester of 2013, that the main obstacles faced by institutions
offering courses in this mode were students dropping out and the
resistance of both educators and students to this mode. The research
used a mixed methodology, qualitative and quantitative, to obtain
student dropout indicators. The factors found and validated in this
research were: the lack of interest from students, insufficient training
in the use of the virtual learning environment for students, structural
problems in the schools that were chosen to offer the course, students
without e-mail, incoherent answers to activities to the course, lack of
knowledge on the part of the student when using the computer tool.
The scenario considered was a course offered in distance mode called
Aluno Integrado (Integrated Student)
