The open and distance educational system of the National University of Mar del Plata. Past, present and a project for the future

Abstract

The Open and Distance Educational System of the UNMdP has been working for more than twenty years. Innovator from the beginning, it has managed to gain great recognition which nowadays surpasses the Buenos Aires border, its first geographical limit. This article introduces a journey along its history, a critic view not only about its achivements but also its unresolved projects and, predominantly, a purposed communication in order to share its future schemes. It is organized in six abstracts. The first three, which are more descriptive, attempt to depict the context in which the system was born, its institutional insertion and its current organization, respectively. Finally the last three abstracts outline the foundation concepts, the possible amendments for the Didactic Production area and their three transformation proposals.