Contributions for the construction of the "University City of knowledge". The experience of the Virtual Campus of the National University of Lanus

Abstract

The National University of Lanús is a public and autonomous university of Argentine Republic, created in 1995, and characterized by being established in the Province of Buenos Aires and considers itself as urban and committed to the resolution of regional and national problems. The institutional project presented in this document promotes the construction of a city of knowledge that exceeds the idea of university cloister and articulates locally producers of scientific, sociocultural, technological and political knowledge. From the Virtual Campus Management, a pedagogical model has been proposed whose educational proposals are based on the guiding principles of the academic activity of the UNLa: transdisciplinarity, problematization of knowledge and modality of workshop work. This article presents the project in the belief that it has strengthened the quality educational proposal in the institution, the democratization of education and social inclusion.