Open University Center of the Pontifical Javeriana University, Colombia

dc.creator	Omayra Parra de Marroquin
dc.creator	Lina Claricia Corredor Moyano
dc.date	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:07:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:07:17Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/f54a1250903c4d0189b23bbc8a1bdbb3
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/11104
dc.description	According to Garcia Canclini (1990) there is the assumption that Colombia is a hybrid society. Upon this standpoint, and within a traditional higher education structure characterized by being fundamentally conventional or campus based, the Open University Center of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana was created as an education program that breaks with every traditional scheme, which in turn, encourages a new learning pattern. The Open University Center emerges as a "social response" focused on the "here and now" of today's society in Colombia.The Javeriana University (a hybrid university) can be placed in this context as well as the Open University Center, as a part of it. Since its creation, through its programs this center offers education to the most vulnerable of Colombia's population, contributing to raise their quality of life.In this article, the authors outline the Open University Center's place in the University's context: its historical development and its structure concerning students, programs, regulations, infrastructure and technological equipment. They also identify the implications and relationships of the traditional education proper of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, as well as the projection and contributions of the Open University Center to the University's future in the pedagogical order of distance education towards virtual education.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/56/116
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 2, Iss 2 (2002)
dc.subject	hybrid society
dc.subject	hybrid
dc.subject	hybridization
dc.subject	dual mode
dc.subject	higher education
dc.subject	distance education
dc.subject	Colombia
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Open University Center of the Pontifical Javeriana University, Colombia
dc.type	article