Institutional Distance Education Unit - Tutorial Centers
The Institutional Unit of Distance Education has two modalities: Traditional Distance Education and Virtual Distance Education.
Traditional Distance Education is considered, at UCM, as a training option that contributes to the increase of higher education coverage in Colombia and the democratization of knowledge.
Technological mediation
The University has information and communication technology mediations with free access to users of the program, using the MOODLE platform, ZOOM, Big Blue Buttom. UCM's own software. Each Tutorial Center has the necessary technological infrastructure to guarantee the development of the program.
Pedagogical mediations
The University has its own pedagogical mediation for the development of distance methodology programs, called Knowledge Production Unit - UDPROCO - which has been validated in the development of undergraduate and graduate programs, which guarantees that the programs are developed within the framework of the principles and foundations of a personalizing and liberating education as established in the University's Educational Project. SYLLABUS is integrated as another pedagogical mediation for the development of virtual academic components.
These pedagogical mediations recognize the dynamics of interaction between educators, students and knowledge; they contain the development of each academic component in its theoretical foundation, methodological guidelines, individual and group activities, support readings and bibliographical references for consultation, including videos as a complementary resource. It also establishes the evaluation criteria for self-evaluation, co-evaluation and heteroevaluation.
