- On the 50th anniversary of its birth, the UNED continues to bet, hand in hand with Microsoft, on innovation, something intrinsic in a pioneering educational entity in online education.
- The University will speed up the adoption of emerging technologies in the institution at all levels, making key technological tools available to students, teachers and other members of the entity to promote innovation and training in the skills demanded by the labor market in the present.
- Se will promote the training and certification of students and teachers in cloud technologies and Microsoft AI, with special emphasis on data management, the most demanded by companies.
- The UNED reinforces its international expansion and improves the accessibility of its students to take exams, with the opening of a classroom in the Microsoft offices in Seattle.
In 2022 it will be 50 years since the birth of the UNED. A novel concept of University, capable of bringing higher education to population centers where it did not reach and with a pioneering model that linked online and blended learning and that was later replicated by other institutions.
The UNED today is the largest university in Spain, which maintains its vocation to bring closer and offer a quality educational offer, modern and accessible to all, with the support of new technologies.
It is this spirit that has made him close a new alliance with Microsoftwhich has been initialed today by the Rector of the UNED, Ricardo Mairal Usón y Alberto Granados, President of Microsoft in Spain. By virtue of this agreement, Microsoft will help the UNED to go further in its digital transformation and use of technology to offer its students a unique, innovative, technological proposal that trains and prepares them with the digital skills that the market demands. current, thus improving their employability.
The Rector of the UNED Ricardo Mairal Uson, affirms that “with this alliance we fulfill one of the strategic objectives of the UNED, to promote innovation and digital transformation through the use and adaptation to technology, together with one of the global leaders. In this way, we strengthen our international presence on the west coast of the United States”
“We are delighted to promote the educational methodology of the UNED, which was a pioneer in the incorporation of technology and which, in its fifty years of existence, continues to be committed to innovation and differentiation. Together we will train key technological talent to successfully carry out the digitization processes in which our business fabric is immersed”, points out Alberto Granados, President of Microsoft España.
Aware of the real needs of the labor market, Microsoft makes available to the UNED Microsoft Learn, an open online platform, organized by itineraries, with step-by-step tutorials and interactive environments that facilitate practical learning and certification in the most innovative Microsoft technologies, with special emphasis on the areas of Artificial Intelligence and data processing with Microsoft PowerBI . This training will help UNED students to differentiate themselves and improve their professional prospects.
Microsoft will also facilitate the integration of Microsoft AI Business School at the University as a learning tool so that students can discover all the possibilities of applying Artificial Intelligence in the business environment, in different sectors. This is an area highly demanded by companies to be able to carry out their digital transformation processes and, therefore, with enormous employment prospects.
But if you want to train students, you need a prepared teaching team. Therefore, Microsoft will also provide UNED with access to Microsoft Learn for Educator, with training aimed especially at teachers. The platform includes teaching materials, tools for your classes and spaces to connect with other educators and Microsoft experts, where you can share best practices to inspire students in their digital training.
The UNED expands and grows in the North American market: it opens a classroom in Seattle, in the Microsoft facilities
Microsoft is also supporting the UNED in its internationalization process, which continues to advance in the US with the opening of a classroom for taking exams located at Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle (USA) and which is added to the one already they have in New York.
From this enclave, the UNED will serve the entire West Coast of the American country, responding to an expansion strategy in countries where the number of current students and a forecast, which indicates its possible increase in the short term, advises bringing the university closer to the and students from all over the world.
With this, there are already 22 classrooms that the UNED has abroad, in 17 different countries, in addition to the associated centers in Spain.
About UNED
The UNED is the largest public university in Spain both in number of students and in academic offer, as well as the largest campus in Europe, and has been dedicated, for 50 years, to universalizing quality Higher Education through a model of online and blended teaching leader in its sector.
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