This paper shows the experiences of APEC University in its effort to achieve virtualization of higher
education; injunction is scheduled for the country's higher education under the provisions of the Ten Year
Plan for Higher Education, 2008-2018. It shows the activities undertaken by the university to achieve that
goal. A major asset is the constant training of its teachers, both in their areas of knowledge and science
teaching, both within and outside the country. Likewise has created the Center for Teaching Support,
CADOC, which provides support and assistance to teachers, extracurricular training courses, among
others, and most important, monitors compliance with the educational structures that have been designed
in towards virtualization. To achieve the objectives towards the virtualization of teaching the university
has established a number of challenges to meet and opportunities to seize. Similarly defined the
limitations and weakness of the university to virtualization. We present the different stages of
virtualization program that defined the college education, specific programs for teacher training to the
virtualization of education, the creation of the Center for Teaching Support (CADOC), the pilot program
teaching blended learning and training courses for teachers in the virtual learning platform, called EVA
(Virtual Learning Environment).
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