Sustainable design and development of virtual learning scenarios for quality postgraduate education XVII Taller Internacional de "Formación de posgrado para un desarrollo sostenible"

Abstract

Cuban higher education continues to focus on maintaining its model of a modern, humanistic, universalized, scientific, technological, innovative university, integrated into society and deeply committed to building a prosperous and sustainable socialism. One of the challenges to overcome, in order to achieve the above, is to diversify modalities of postgraduate education with the aim of keeping up to date the high number of university graduates who currently work in different professions, including those for which they were not trained, who They constitute the basis for innovation and development of the country. On the other hand, the policies to favor the computerization of Cuban society, and currently its digital transformation, have caused new informational needs in all sectors of society, particularly in higher education. However, it is recognized that the use of information and communication technologies is still insufficient in order to favor the flexibility of the current postgraduate and training programs offered by educational institutions. Some of the results of a Research Project where professors from five universities in the country participate and collaborate are presented in this work and which has allowed managing virtual environments for different learning scenarios, depending on the postgraduate training of professionals; as well as the management of knowledge and its relationship university-local government-needs of the territory, through training actions; that include strategic sectors such as tourism and hydraulic resources.