E-Learning: Sustainability, Environment and Renewable Energy in Latin America, a Multinational Training Pilot Module at Postgraduate Level

Abstract

A pilot module will be implemented by four of the JELARE project’s partners: Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala and Latvia. Research was carried out by them in their own countries, where a scarcity of multidisciplinary programmes was detected at postgraduate level. The common characteristic was the need to modernize the curriculum by introducing a more diverse outlook. The definitive student profile should aim to provide skills useful to the private and public, non-governmental and academic sectors. The pensum will consist of 13 courses, identified on the basis of an analysis of the competencies needed, contained within three modules: sustainability, environment and renewable energy (with courses such as Sociology of Development and Global Challenges, Environment and Sustainable Development, Energy Matrix Planning, Energy Economics, Policies and Regulations on Energy and Environment as well as courses mainly devoted to renewable energy and its management). The postgraduate programme is to be implemented over four trimesters. Online teaching methods will be introduced high lighting self-study, cooperation and tutorial guidelines. The scheme will launch activities by 1 July 2011; the institutional framework for implementation is currently being worked out among all interested partners.