Social Networks as a media to support the higher education in Latin America: a Tegucigalpa, Honduras case

Abstract

As in most economic sectors generating goods and services, Higher Education (HE) is having a major shift in the economic structure of countries, due to the design and integration of ICT's in their work and daily actions. Conceiving globalizing adapt to changes that allow the internal structure of adaptation and assimilation of such changes, being also affected the form of interaction-linkage with economic operators.

This process could not have happened without the constant inventions and technological innovations that allow society to accelerate the learning curve as the curve of development. And implementing them in many areas, is like so that implementation can lead to the educational field, specifically in the ES, with all these developments has generated a new paradigm in education, but with some impasses. This paradigm does envision an education freer, more focused on the student, more personalized and more interactive, which slows a reality that developing countries should be subject to important decision makers in order to reduce the gap digital distance threshold of development between developing and developed countries.