2017-11-222017-11-222008-10DOURADO, Luiz Fernandes. Políticas e gestão da educação superior a distância: novos marcos regulatórios?. Educação & Sociedade, Campinas, v. 29, n. 104, p. 891-917, out. 2008.0101-7330e- 1678-4626http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/12956To evaluate the current politics and management for the basic and superior education, the article focuses new regulatory landmarks of the expansion process and analyzes the politics di- rected to the formation of professors, with special distinction for the education in the distance in the public sector. In this direction, it presents and it analyzes some educational pointers and it searchs to apprehend, in the field of the politics proposals for the MEC , the paper of the “New CAPES ” as space of regulation of the politics of formation of professors, emphasizing the public expansion, in the E a D modality, by means of the challenges of the consolidation of the Open University of Brazil ( UAB ).porAcesso AbertoEducação superior a distânciaExpansão públicaRegulaçãoSuperior education in the distancePublic expansionRegulationArtigo10.1590/S0101-73302008000300012