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Published in Chapter:
Trends in Distance Education in South America
Luis Barrera (Cesar Vallejo University, Peru)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch317
Abstract
This article reviews the history, state of the art, and future trends in distance education, in South American countries, through an overview of the main experiences in the region. South America is in the western hemisphere, connected to Central and North America by the Isthmus of Panama. Twelve countries form this continent: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. As reported by the United Nations Development Programme (2007), all of them are developing countries, characterized by a difficult social reality as a result of political and economic crisis in the course of its history.