June 8, 2012 -- Madrid
UNED, the Center for Virtual Higher Education, Telefonica and Banco Santander Learning Services signed a collaboration agreement with the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to establish a massive open online community in Spain and Latin America. Thus was born the first Ibero-American community open and free of digital entrepreneurship.
This initiative is groundbreaking online educational innovation in Spain, created with the aim of extending to all Spanish-speaking Latin American communities. This first edition, which will begin next academic year will be dedicated to teaching programming mobile applications with software created by the MIT Media Lab: App Inventor. This training will be complemented by technology entrepreneurship skills to enable students to market their developments at the end of the course.