Universidad Virtual de Quilmes

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The Universidad Virtual de Quilmes (Quilmes Virtual University, UVQ) is the online arm of the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, or National University of Quilmes (UNQ), Argentina. Founded in 1999, the UVQ currently hosts 6,500 students across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. It is an online educational initiative using a web-based 'virtual campus' for course delivery.

The National University of Quilmes was founded in 1989. It is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has over 11,000 students. They offer 8 undergratuate programs, 4 postgraduate, and offer several services for the institutions.

It was the first institution of Latin America that saw an oportunity to develop and use a Virtual enviroment. Due to the results of their marketresearch showed that the use of the internet in the country was increased with 540%, and also the bandwich was better. So it was a chance to invest in that niche. The main problem was that they had to invest an important amount of money in research and development because there wasn't a culture of distance learning, despite this they are one of the leaders in Latin america in Distance and virtual enviroment in education. They made several reports and attended forums over the world.

A notable project that they are doing is called PIDA EVES-Q, Programa de Investigación, Desarrollo y Aplicación de Entornos Virtuales para la Educación Superior, (Program of Research, Development and Implementation of Virtual Environments for Higher Education).

They are using moodle platform, called Qoodle, also the benefits of web 2.0, the interction of both is very important where all participants share their knowledge.

This year is the 10th aniversary of UVQ.

The Universidad Virtual de Quilmes web site is at http://www.virtual.unq.edu.ar/

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