Adult education and university teaching in a distance education system

Abstract

This paper aims to appeal toreflection about the role we play asteachers, and the constant interaction we have withour students, who are immersed in auniversity higher education system holdthe category of "adult".This leads us to question if we are reallyrecognizing its particular characteristics and taking them into account in curriculum design and in the development of teaching materials.Interested also recognize the important rolethe teacher as mediator teaching, mainly in a distance education system.