Cuba: distance education in the University of Havana

Abstract

This study begins with a characterization of the Education in Cuba in the pre-revolutionary phase, this period are the antecedents of deep changes which starts in 1959 with the spread of the educational services, the literacy campaign and the foundation of the National System of Education. It’s explained the development of distance education in Cuba. It emerges in the scholar course 1979-1980 and is distinguished by non students’ attendance to classrooms and theirs self learning management. This model targeted to adults students with certain professional interest, responsible, and able to take decisions. The requirements to access to this educational model were limited to have approved the precedent grade. At the end, it shows the organizational structure, the curricula, the developed programs, the evaluation system, and students characteristics. Lately, it discuss about the improvement accomplished in distance education on the New Cuban University frame.