ULS creates Distance Education Office, responding to new educational trends

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The new office, whose functions have been under the auspices of Campus Digital, will be under the Office of the Vice-Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies.

Considering the increase in demand, supply and enrollment of distance education programs, added to the institutional need to respond to the demands for continuity of studies in postgraduate and postgraduate programs under this modality, the University of La Serena has created the new Distance Education Office.

This office, whose functions have been under the auspices of Campus Digital, will be under the Office of the Vice-Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies.

In this regard, the Coordinator of this office, MTI. Humberto Farías Aroca values ​​his creation, which “comes to consolidate the work carried out over four years. This has allowed us to have the most modern technological platform in the country to develop distance education, in addition to an entire multidisciplinary process that allows us to generate top-of-the-line programs in the country and in the world within the framework of distance education.”

Likewise, he highlights that the creation of this office will allow “a significant leap in both the quantity and quality of the programs that the University of La Serena offers in non-face-to-face and semi-face-to-face formats. It is a very interesting commitment by the ULS both to respond to graduates within the framework of continuing education and also to be able to support the new training needs of the region and the country."

Features

Within the tasks of the Distance Education Office is to technically link the faculties, departments and units of the ULS with the national and international community, through the support and implementation of distance education programs. Likewise, coordinate, develop and define guidelines for the curricular design of these programs; create audiovisual resources and content that contribute to the transfer of institutional knowledge; generate linkage projects with the national and international productive social environment; and develop and coordinate technology transfer initiatives to training processes, in a complementary way to academic work.