Managing the Virtual University: A Real Experience

Yannet Liliana Mesa Medina
(North Catholic University Foundation, Antioquia, Colombia)

Abstract: The North Catholic University Foundation is a virtual university, characterized by its virtual education model which obviously impacts its functions of teaching, extension, research, internationalization/outreach. This institution is private in nature, recognized by the Colombian government in 1997 by Resolution 1761 adopted by the Ministry of Education, and belongs to the Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos, in the northern department of Antioquia. E-learning as an institutional mark, and ratified by the persistence of its policies, has over 15 years of institutional life, necessarily demands administrative and financial management to ensure sustainability, a point of balance and fulfilling the founding mission: to bring comprehensive education and contexts to houses where students live and work, with the mediation of information and communication technologies, ICT. In addition, it adapted, without overlapping or ignoring the Colombian education policy framework and business despite the natural gaps that still persist in these areas. In short, they are facing administrative and educational innovation. Socializing the administrative experience and financial management of the virtual school as a way of transferring knowledge is what motivates this paper.

Key words: e-learning; virtual workers; virtual enterprise’ manage the unseen and planning phase

JEL code: M190