Telecentre UNAH-CURLA Roatan: The first year of an innovative experience

Abstract

In this article the experience of the implementation of the virtual modality is presented through the telecenter of the Honduras Autonomous National University, UNAH, in Roatán, Islas de la Bahia, in its first year of functioning. This is the fourth project of this type that is implemented in the institution, and follows the principles of equality, pertinence and quality.

The telecenter of Roatán was created in the year 2013 from the Littoral Atlantic Regional University Center, CURLA, as the central node of the Atlantic educational web with the objective of bringing an opportunity of access to the higher education to the youth of the insular department of Islas de la Bahía, where the UNAH had no presence.

More than 50 students are formed through the telecenter in the bachelor ´s degree of Ecotourism and Microfinances in the virtual modality. The good practices, the lessons learned and the main challenges of a formative virtual modality for the UNAH and the country, are presented as a result of the analysis of a project of innovative education, that came in its first year, bringing a wide quantity of supplies for the continuous improvement of these innovative processes in the Honduran higher education.

UNAH INNOV@ No 4 2015 page 5-10