Management and develop of an education continuing program for School of Biology of the University of Costa Rica

Abstract

The Project Education Continue, Updating and Biological Advices in Biological Sciences started to operate in 2010 year.  The main objective of this project is to give effective training and advice to professionals, public institutions or private enterprises, and also give support to Costa Rican population which demands training under the scope of continue education.  This document pretends to show experiences obtained during the first four year of activities (2010-2013). It was offer short courses, workshops, forums, symposiums and congress with professors from Costa Rica and other countries.  The average of activities reach per year was ten and the topics were in different biological fields.  The main strengths of the activities were the topics and professors skills, but it was detected weakness in terms of virtual education. It was developed a sustainable financial process and it gives the opportunity the School of Biology to obtain some economical support for the regular educational process.  The School Biology needs to improve the continuing the education process through to e-learning and apply the use of educational informatics technologies. In this way it can be possible to increase the impact and beneficiary population of PECACIBI.