Reflections about dgital culture & education in a time of crisis in Argentina

Reflections on Argentinean higher education in times of COVID-19 or the silver lining behind the dark cloud

Hi, I am Lucía, the lecturer

Lucía

Raquel

Yanina

Javier

Florencia

Clara,
the student of the team

Belisa

Sabrina

Belén

Érica

and Pablo
(he doesn´t like
selfies)

Research group: Project R&D ´Digital literacy at university and its impact on academic and civic practices of undergraduates and faculty’ (2019-2021). National University of the Northwest of Buenos Aires Province. Argentina.

Director: Raquel Tarullo. mrtarullo@comunidad.unnoba.edu.ar.

Researchers: Belisa Martino. Yanina Frezzotti. Lucía Papa. Sabrina Pompei. Javier Charne. Florencia Papa. Pablo Godoy. Belén Chilano. Clara Mascuilli. Erica Izquierdo

Year founded 2002

Universities in Argentina

In Argentina, there are more than 1,500,000 undergraduates, 60% of whom attend the 57 public universities that co-exist with the 46 private ones. Public university in Argentina is free, a feature that sets the country apart from others in the region.
The first public university, the National University of Córdoba, dates back to 1613, while the newest one was founded in 2016. There is a bill under consideration in Congress to start two more universities during this year.
Public national universities are distributed throughout the country and vary in size. The biggest ones are located in major hubs, such as Buenos Aires, La Plata, Santa Fe and Córdoba, all capitals. Far from the 35% of universities which have an average of 7,000

students are the University of Buenos Aires, with more than 320,000 undergraduates and the National University of La Plata, with 110,000 students. At the other end of the scale there are those which do not have more than 3,000 students. These new, small ones were created for many reasons, being an important one the need to curb the uprooting of countryside communities. Within this last category we find the National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires (UNNOBA), where this project and this research group is affiliated. In this institution, there are around 7,000 students and 598 faculty members.

You can access more useful
information here: http://mapa.educacion.gob.ar/maps/mapa-navegable-de-las-universidades

Source: Sistema de consultad de estadísticas universitarias. Secretaría de Políticas Universitarias de la Nación (SPU): http://estadisticasuniversitarias.me.gov.ar/#/home

Tables based on information from the National Interuniversity Council (CIN, 2016). https://www.cin.edu.ar/instituciones-universitarias/

Year founded 2002

The undergraduates

As many reports have stated, young
people stay in digital spaces for doing their daily activities, such as
socializing, shopping, dating, consuming information (see, among many others:

https://www.indec.gob.ar/indec/web/Institucional-Indec-Publicaciones-1

https://hootsuite.com/resources/digital-in-2019

https://tendenciasdigitales.com/redes-sociales-usos-latinoamerica/

https://www.comscore.com/lat/About-comScore/office-locations/Latin-America/Argentina