Good Practices in Online and Distance Education Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

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One line of strategy pursued by the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Quality in Distance Higher Education (CALED) is to consolidate a Latin America and Caribbean team of experts in quality distance higher education, by educating academic and administrative personnel at Latin American and Caribbean universities who are interested in distance education and are offering a full range of high-quality Distance Education. In this context, it has been indispensable to develop training courses and/or programs about distance educational quality, evaluation, accbkp_reditation and degree certification, programs and/or courses in the distance or on-line modality, to generate quality improvement processes in these institutions. CALED’s experience began growing in 2010, by developing the course on Self-Assessment of Virtual Courses for Ongoing Education, designed to understand and apply theoretical and methodological foundations to evaluating virtual courses for ongoing education, which has evolved through five editions. In 2011, CALED offered the course for Self-Assessment of Undergraduate Distance Programs, to share the distance undergraduate program evaluation model, designed by the Institute, with other interested institutions. This course has grown through four editions. In 2015, the International Diploma Program began on Evaluating Quality in Distance Higher Education programs, with the mission of encouraging quality in virtual settings, by educating human resources, preparing evaluation criteria, and fostering a culture of quality, through three modules. The first addresses quality, evaluation, and standards of distance higher …

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