A total of 41 students from the different programs offered by the University in this type of study were able to attend a symbolic ceremony in which they shared and met their teachers and classmates in person. 

The University of La Serena, through its Office of Distance Education (OED), fulfilled one of its proposed milestones last year and that marks a precedent for this house of studies. This is the first cohort of graduates of their online and blended diplomas coordinated through this new office, corresponding to the first semester of 2019. 

In total there were 4 diploma courses taught with a total of 41 graduates, corresponding to: Digital Marketing, Didactics of Social Sciences, University Education for Health Sciences and Teaching for Professional Technical training, which had the E-learning and B- modality. learning, that is, completely online and blended. 

Some of the students empirically verified how the knowledge acquired affected their work activities, such as the case of businessman Luis Muñoz Tapia, a Digital Marketing student, who applied everything he learned to his business. "Today, for example, I started by investing in SEM 300 to 400 thousand pesos a month, paid per click to Google and to be able to appear in the marketing funnel, and all this that I learned in the diploma over time, with the learning from the modules I was able to improve my texts, I was able to have the knowledge to improve my website, the pages, the contents and this has helped me in an organic way, through SEO, today when Googling the product of my business, I appear on the first page in an organic way.”

Working with the platform and the professional support of the teachers was key to making these diplomas possible. This is what the Social Sciences Didactics student, Valery Quiroz Pérez, pointed out: “the most significant thing was finding didactic classes through a teacher who explained almost in person step by step the contents and then the curricular structure towards the advancement of tasks and investigations that were clear, and a lot of improvement in terms of ICTs. In particular, one of the experiences that I emphasize most is having introduced my experience as a generalist, projecting it towards the second cycle and secondary education and perhaps higher education based on the contents learned in the diploma."

Challenge 2020

The coordinator of the Distance Education Office, Humberto Farías Aroca, highlighted the work carried out. “The enthusiasm and professionalism of the OED team was reflected in the happiness and satisfaction of this first cohort. We can indicate that as an institution we meet the expectations of these students by choosing us to continue their studies,” said Farías, who added that “during 2020 we will focus on creating and doubling the current offer of diplomas, diversifying its area, pointing out others that They have not been taken like engineering and science. In this way, we will have a more complete offer, first for our graduates and also for students who are interested in the University of La Serena as the place for their continued studies.” 

Source: Office of Distance Education