Uvirtual

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Uvirtual it is a group of Chilean universities and the consortium REUNA (related to ICT and networks for education). It was born in late of 1998.

UVirtual arises as a response to the obvious need, showing universities to unite their efforts for a rapid and planned adoption of new teaching-learning methods, using modern information and communication technologies.

UVirtual led projects where the technology enables:

• Access the academic knowledge without having to physically enter a campus (the distance is not an excuse).
• Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of learning processes
• Flexible learning models
• Share the culture, experience and knowledge that is generated inside the universities.

Appropriation of new educational technologies is a strategic option which aims to insert a property with the Higher Education of Chile in the wide world of globalism. Uvirtual offers several services like:

• Uvirtual training: Offering several courses related to many fields.
• Uvirtual services: Video Conferencing, platform support pedagogical design.

The website is at http://www.uvirtual.cl/principal/inicio/inicio.htm (fully in spanish).