THE TREND TOWARDS DESPRESENCIALIZACION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN LATIN AMERICA

This article analyse the process of development of virtual education in the higher education sector in Latin America moving toward a focus on the impact of new technologies on the modalities of distance education and how they are contributing a new process of differentiation of both general education and distance education in particular assuming a multimodality. The article displays the types of institutional manifestations of what is defined as a process despresencializacion of higher education, and identifies a proposal of the most dominant of these trends is the expansion of distance education in the region.