Hybrid and distance education

In the last decades, higher education has been influenced by an important and growing technological mediation. Today, with the impact caused by the pandemic, this mediation has deepened, with demands increasingly focused on hybrid and distance education, which is applied to a larger context of people and communities in the educational field.

Without losing genuine interest in the noble and experienced face-to-face education, current challenges call for a hybrid education with high sufficiency to meet present and future needs with a high level of effectiveness. For this reason, it is necessary to combine efforts in the creation and development of educational and technological management methods that are based on training within the framework of a better quality of life and the effective use of technological potential.

This redounds to the benefit of personal fulfillment in the various personal, family, professional and citizen spheres, to promote quality of life in an inclusive and global sense. Situation that deserves a strengthened educational vision in hybrid (face-to-face and mixed education) and virtual environments, with options that are not completely new, but innovative in their development, management and results. This is how changes in direction are valued, towards different types of users: full-time students, active young professional students and communities of older adults, professionals or not.

It aspires to incorporate new modalities of virtual training, in the face of the well-known trend of educating for life (long learning), valid but insufficient, through the curricular flexibility of institutions for the creation of short, high-impact hybrid training modalities professional. To meet the requirements of the digital age, new personalized training itineraries have emerged, with alternative credentials to certify skills in the development of new skills, complementary to conventional careers.

Virtual degree offers for adults of any age and profession are attached to this scheme, whose quality of life can be improved from the non-conventional degree. Hybrid and distance education can be seen, then, in a context of collective interest and responsibility, inclusion, solidarity, equity and collaboration. To do so, it has an impressive technological potential that is not yet available to all social groups as would be desirable.

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