Dominican Republic

Not to be confused with Dominica.

Original Re.ViCa entry by Paul Bacsich assisted by Gertjan and with desk research by Iris Velasquez Noguera

For entities in Dominican Republic see Category:Dominican Republic

Partners situated in Dominican Republic

None.

Dominican Republic in a nutshell

(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic)

Source : http://www.cia.gov

The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are occupied by two countries, Saint Martin being the other.

Both by area and population, the Dominican Republic is the second largest Caribbean nation (after Cuba), with 48,442 km² and an estimated 10 million people.

The capital is Santo Domingo.

The Dominican Republic is a representative democracy, with national powers divided among independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The President of the Dominican Republic appoints the Cabinet, executes laws passed by the Congress, and is commander in chief of the armed forces. The president and vice president run for office on the same ticket and are elected by direct vote for 4–year terms. Legislative power is exercised by a bicameral Congress composed of the Senate (with 32 members) and the Chamber of Deputies (with 178 members).

The Dominican Republic is divided into 31 provinces. Additionally, the national capital, Distrito Nacional (National District), is contained within Santo Domingo. The provinces are divided into municipalities (municipios; singular municipio). They are the second–level political and administrative subdivisions of the country.

The population of the Dominican Republic in 2007 was estimated by the United Nations at 9,760,000, which placed it number 82 in population among the 193 nations of the world. In that year approximately 5% of the population was over 65 years of age, while 35% of the population was under 15 years of age. There were 103 males for every 100 females in the country in 2007. According to the UN, the annual population growth rate for 2006–2007 is 1.5%, with the projected population for the year 2015 at 10,121,000.

Dominican Republic education policy

http://www.seescyt.gov.do/default.aspx (Spanish)
Which is responsible to promote, regulate and manage the National System of Higher Education, Science and Technology under Law 139-01.

http://www.adru.org/ (Spanish)
It was founded on 18 August 1980 as a non-profit association composed of state and private universities Dominican recognized by existing laws, whose legal status was granted by Decree No. 2548 dated 3 July 1981.

Higher education

Universities in Dominican Republic

For a list of universities see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_the_Dominican_Republic or http://www.seescyt.gov.do/educsuperior/default.aspx (Spanish)

1. Barna Business School
2. Instituto Politécnico Loyola
3. Instituto Superior de Agricultura
4. Instituto Técnico Superior Oscus San Valero
5. Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo
6. Instituto Tecnológico del Cibao Oriental
7. Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
8. Universidad Abierta para Adultos
9. Universidad Adventista Dominicana
10. Universidad APEC
11. Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
12. Universidad Católica de Santo Domingo
13. Universidad Católica Nordestana
14. Universidad Católica Tecnológica del Cibao
15. Universidad Central del Este
16. Universidad Central Dominicana de Estudios Profesionales
17. Universidad de la Tercera Edad
18. Universidad del Caribe
19. Universidad Dominicana Organización y Método
20. Universidad Domínico - Americana
21. Universidad Eugenio María de Hostos
22. Universidad Experimental Félix Adam
23. Universidad Federico Henríquez y Carvajal
24. Universidad Iberoamericana
25. Universidad Interamericana
26. Universidad Nacional Evangélica
27. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña
28. Universidad Nacional Tecnológica
29. Universidad Odontológica Dominicana
30. Universidad Psicología Industrial Dominicana
31. Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago

Virtual initiatives

Interesting Virtual Campus Initiatives

Virtual Campus

Las Americas Institute of Technology

As a leading institution in the field of technology training, it makes extensive use of new technologies. For this reason we have created the Department of Educational Technology (DTE) that has several initiatives that support our strategy of distance education and educational application software.

National Judicial College (Spanish)
Training school for judges and public defenders from the Dominican Republic The National Judicial College offers judges and public defenders virtual courses that are the academic offerings for the period October to December 2009 with seats available.

Institute of Technology of Santo Domingo(Spanish)
The Technological Institute of Santo Domingo is a private university, public service, nonprofit that started its academic activities offering postgraduate programs, short updating courses as Continuing Education, research and science communication. This situation prompted the INTEC out in the country a pioneer in that level of study. Later, in 1973 joined the undergraduate curriculum to their offer.

The virtual campus aims to develop a working methodology that serves as the basis for the INTEC to provide a training tool that comes within reach of the student community nationwide through the use of Internet technology and other means to enabl e the broadcasting of interactive academic content.

Distance Learning

Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo(Spanish) This one uses radio and TV.

http://uasd.edu.do/news/Default.aspx?article_id=1122 (Spanish) With the presence of the rector of the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Dr. Franklin Garcia Fermin, opened the Sixth International Congress on Information Technology, Communication and Distance Education, CITIC 2009 VI CREAD CARIBBEAN.

Its purpose is to create a space for reflection and exchange that contributes to the development of Distance Learning (DL) as a mode of education and its relation to the Information Technologies and Communication Technologies (ICT).

UASD (Spanish)graduateds the first teachers in virtual learning management

Other

Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Spanish)

Is the state agency created by the General Telecommunications Law (153-98) that regulates and oversees the development of the telecommunications market. Its mission is to "regulate and promote the provision of telecommunications services for the benefit of society, in a free, fair and effective competition” and to hear and decide the Complaint Resources (RDQ) which are submitted by users of public telecommunications services.

Distance Education Center
The Distance Learning Center is a Department of the INAP responsible for promoting educational topics using new information technologies and communication. In particular it uses semi virtual and online strategies which hold an offer of fully exhausting the opportunities of distance education. This can be an excellent channel for transmitting high-level programs offered anywhere in the world.

Interesting Programmes

See Open University for Adults.

Re.ViCa Case-study

None.

References

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For OER policies and projects in Dominican Republic see Dominican Republic/OER

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