Evaluation of the implementation of the Distance Education Model of Cuban Higher Education

Abstract

Distance education emerges as a feasible alternative for training students  that cannot attend the classroom. Many actions have been developed during the last decade for contributing to distance education in Cuba. One of the actions is related to the design of a Distance Education Model in Cuban Higher Education which is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate studients. The contextualization of the model depends on the requirements of each curricular design, therefore different implementations are probable. They can be more or less successful in correspondence with the fulfillment or not of the aspects that the model exposes and its adaptation to the requisites  of the program in which it is applied. Although, several institutions of the country are implementing the model, a methodology to assess this implementation is not available. This paper is aimed at proposing a methodology to evaluate the implementation of the Distance Education Model in Cuban Higher Education. It consists of three stages. Each stage includes actions that allow the achievement of the set goals.