Derecho a la educación superior: flexibilidad del currículo, graduación y mediaciones tecnológicas

Abstract

In an international context of increasing pressure from transnational organizations such as the World Trade Or-ganization through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Argentine higher education is characteri-zed in its historical development as a citizen’s right and not as a transnational commodity. The history of Argen-tine higher education is the history of access to a right, and educational technology and distance education have contributed and continue to contribute solutions to this mission. It is because of its status as a right that higher education institutions must invest all the means at their disposal to ensure that students have access to it without any kind of restriction, as regulated by the Higher Edu-cation Law. They must also guarantee the graduation of their students so that access to the right is not an empty discourse. One tool available for this purpose is curricu-lar flexibilization, which makes it possible to respect the motivations and pace of each student together with an autonomous administration of time and space that is not expulsive. The autonomous management of the curricu-lum is also enhanced by the use of technological media-tions that make it possible to articulate physical presence with virtual presence.