OER in Argentina: Edition 2 Iris Velazquez Noguera, May 2014 Table of Contents 0. Executive Summary: changes from Edition 1 ............................................................ 3 1. Argentina overview ...................................................................................................... 4 2. Education in Argentina ................................................................................................ 6 2.1 Overview ......................................................................................................... 6 2.1.1 Highlights ......................................................................................................... 6 2.1.2 Educational modalities ..................................................................................... 8 2.1.3 Students by level of education 2007 – 2012 ..................................................... 8 2.2 General Basic Education (EGB) .................................................................... 10 2.2.1 Pre-school education ..................................................................................... 10 2.2.2 Primary and Secondary School ...................................................................... 10 2.3 Further Education: Secondary Education and Technical Schools .................. 14 2.3.1 Secondary education Specialities, modalities and degrees ............................ 14 2.3.2 Enrolled students and graduation rates .......................................................... 15 2.3.3 Outstanding Secondary Education Colleges ....................................................... 16 2.4 Higher education ........................................................................................... 17 2.4.1 Non-university higher education ..................................................................... 17 2.4.2 Universities .................................................................................................... 18 2.4.3 Special Programmes of the Secretary of University Policies .......................... 21 2.5 Lifelong Learning ........................................................................................... 22 2.5.1 National System of Continuous Training ........................................................ 22 2.6 Distance Education and E-learning in Argentina ............................................ 23 2.6.1 History of Distance Education in Argentina .................................................... 23 2.6.2 Associations of distance education in Argentina ............................................ 25 3. Internet in Argentina .................................................................................................. 28 3.1 Overview ....................................................................................................... 28 3.1.1 Digital user profile in Argentina ...................................................................... 28 3.2 Educational Internet ...................................................................................... 30 3.2.1 Innova Red .................................................................................................... 30 3.2.2 High Performance Computing National System SNCAD ................................ 33 3.2.3 RedCLARA Latin American Advanced Networks Cooperation ....................... 34 4. Copyright laws in Argentina ...................................................................................... 36 4.1 The Law ........................................................................................................ 36 4.2 National Copyright Directorate ....................................................................... 37 4.3 Piacet Foundation ......................................................................................... 38 OER in Argentina: Edition 2 (country report for POERUP) 4.4 Creative Commons ........................................................................................ 38 4.4.1 Wikimedia Argentina ...................................................................................... 39 4.4.2 Fundación Vía Libre ....................................................................................... 39 4.5 GNU Free Documentation License ................................................................ 40 5. OER Initiatives in Argentina (REA) ........................................................................... 41 5.1 International initiatives ................................................................................... 41 5.1.1 Oportunidad Project ....................................................................................... 41 5.1.2 MIT OpenCourseWare ................................................................................... 42 5.1.3 CLACSO’s Virtual Library Network of Social Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean ................................................................................................ 42 5.1.4 Virtual Campus of Public Health..................................................................... 43 5.1.5 La Referencia. Latin American Federated Network of Scientific Documentation .............................................................................................. 44 5.2 National or regional initiatives ........................................................................ 45 5.2.1 Main Portal of the National System of Digital Repositories ............................. 45 5.2.2 Electronic Library of Science and Technology................................................ 47 5.2.3 UNESCO / International Institute for Educational Planning – Buenos Aires ... 49 5.2.4 Evolution Foundation – Fundacion Evolucion (FE) ......................................... 50 5.2.5 Open Access Week in Argentina.................................................................... 51 5.2.6 Scientific Electronic Library Online SciELO .................................................... 52 5.2.7 RICABIB: the Digital Repository of Atomic Centre Bariloche and The Balseiro Institute – Institutional Repository .................................................... 53 5.2.8 MOOC in the Distance Learning Programme of the Universidad del Salvador (USAL): Programa de Educacion a Distancia (PAD) ....................... 53 5.2.9 School of Education at the Argentine University of Enterprise ........................ 54 5.2.10 Argentinean Society of Paediatrics ................................................................ 54 5.2.11 Gleducar – Civil Association .......................................................................... 55 5.2.12 Possible Worlds ............................................................................................. 57 5.2.13 Other OERs or organizations in Argentina ..................................................... 57 6. Law 26899 for creation of Open Access Institutional Repositories ....................... 62 Iris Velazquez, for Sero Consulting 2 May 2014 OER in Argentina: Edition 2 (country report for POERUP) 0. Executive Summary: changes from Edition 1 1. New OERs: Virtual campus of Public Health, Educational Virtual Clinic, La Referencia, Main Portal of the National System of Digital Repositories SNRD, Electronic Library of Science and Technology, and Argentinean Society of Paediatrics 2. New MOOCs: Distance Learning Programme of the USAL and UADE 3. New OER-related policy: Law 26899 for the creation of open access digital institutional repositories owned or shared 4. General information about Argentina’s population update 5. General basic education and further education academic structure 6. Basic education figures up to 2012 7. Higher education figures up to 2011 8. Update in programs of the Secretary of University policies 9. National System of continuous training 10. Digital user profile in Argentina, update 2013 11. Innova Red and SNCAD update 12. MIT OpenCourseWare update 13. Evolution Foundation, BIBHUMA’s Academic Memory, Intellectual Creation Dissemination Service at the UNLP, SciELO, Cartapacio, Digital Library UNCuyo, and RICABIB update 14. Other OERs and organizations in Argentina update. As with all public reports and files from POERUP, this document is released under a Creative Commons license: CC-BY-SA 4.0. Iris Velazquez, for Sero Consulting 3 May 2014 OER in Argentina: Edition 2 (country report for POERUP) 1. Argentina overview Official name: Republica Argentina President: Cristina Fernández, 2011–2015 Capital: Buenos Aires Language: Spanish Main cities: Córdoba, La Plata, Mar del Plata, Mendoza, Rosario Estimated Population: 40.117.096 inhabitants, 20.593.330 women and 19.523.766 men (INDEC, Census 2010) Annual population growth per 1000 inhabitants 2001-2010: 11.4 Literacy rate: 98.1% Currency: Peso ($) Area: 3.761.274 Km2 Political System: Republican, Representative, and Federalist “The Argentinean nation adopts for its government the federal republican representative form according to this Constitution.” Article 1 Source: Constitution of the Argentinean Republic, 1994. Life expectancy: 76 years old GDP per capita (PPP US$) 14.561 Political division: 23 autonomous provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Time zone: GMT-03:00 The Argentine Republic is located in the South and West Hemisphere. To the North it is bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay, to the south by Chile and the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by Brazil, Uruguay and the Atlantic Ocean, and to the West by Chile. In surface area, Argentina is the fourth-largest country in America