María Mercedes Zapata de López. Educación a Distancia. Alternativa para Estudios Universitarios en la Venezuela de Hoy.
Revista Scientific. - Ensayo Arbitrado - Registro nº: 295-14548 - pp. BA2016000002 - Vol. 2, Nº 5 – Agosto-Octubre 2017 - pág. 356/376
ISSN: 2542-2987 - ISNI: 0000 0004 6045 0361
Long Distance Education. Alternative for University Studies in Today's
Venezuela
Abstract
If we start from the fact that education is a human right, the State has an
obligation to guarantee equitable access to the education system at all levels.
In that sense, governments should offer alternatives for the population to have
access to it. This alternative can be distance education (EaD), a modality
mediated by ICT as a learning tool of the millennium that offers low cost,
massification and democratization, with a relevant and effective education. The
objective of the present essay is to show the benefits of EaD and how it has
become an alternative for the training of professionals with the same quality
and excellence of the graduates in the conventional systems, stating the most
outstanding differences between the distance modality and The conventional,
the role of counselors and students, the characteristics of counselors and
students at a distance; And the scientific and humanistic contribution of the
researches with remote systems, which demonstrate that the EaD meets and
has the educational competence to form a cutting-edge human resource, with
the demands of the millennium.
Keywords: distance education; ict; research.
Date Received: 01-03-2017 Date Acceptance: 19-04-2017
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