There will be four diploma courses under the e-learning and b-learnig modality that will be carried out for the first time in this study house. Its mission is to strengthen and diversify the academic offering of the ULS.

La University of La Serenathrough Digital Campus, has worked on the implementation of four diplomas in the e-learning modality y b-learning. This training modality is being carried out for the first time in this university and its mission is to strengthen and diversify the academic offering of the University. This process already has its first registrations and will officially begin operating this April 15 with its first edition.

The director of Digital Campus, MTI. Humberto Farías pointed out that “the graduates come to complete a project that the University undertook in order to position itself as a national benchmark in the field of distance education. The first stage of this was to build one of the most modern and complete platforms in the country in terms of user experience, in addition to the equipment necessary to create training programs in accordance with the training needs of the community, whether they are our alumni, like other people in the region and the country. This first version of the diploma courses opens the way in which the University of La Serena will systematically increase its offer of programs in this modality.”

The diplomas that will be taught in this first version are: Diploma in Digital Marketing, Diploma in Teaching for Vocational Technical Training, Diploma in University Education for Health Sciences and Diploma in Social Sciences.  

The Director of the Diploma in Digital Marketing, Mg. Karina Núñez, maintained that "currently studying remotely helps us to complement both the tasks that professionals have in their jobs and to be able to make it compatible with family work, time is becoming increasingly scarce to be able to move from a University or a city to other. That is why the University of La Serena, by implementing these postgraduate degrees, supports the continuous training of our alumni and professionals from both the region and the country to strengthen professional skills.”

Meanwhile, the professor of the Diploma in Teaching for Vocational Technical Training, Carlos Santander, emphasizes the advantages of online education. "The student learns to take responsibility for his or her training on his or her own initiative, there is exhaustive monitoring of the training process and there are no travel difficulties or geographical barriers."

The official launch of the first version of these diploma courses will take place in the Multipurpose Room of the CETEFI building, on Friday, April 12 at 16:00 p.m. For more information visit the page: continuity.userena.digital.

Written by Emilio Castro, ULS Digital Campus