Contribution to the Social Development of on Online Baccalaureate Program as a Strategy for Access to Higher Secondary Education

Abstract

This paper presents the preliminary results of a study on an Online Baccalaureate program at a public university in Southeast Mexico. The research was focused on the perception of the actors involved in the Teaching Learning Process about the contributions of the institution to social development. Data collection involved documentary analysis, and semi-structured interviews. Preliminary results indicate that the online baccalaureate faces several challenges in achieving its purpose, in spite it contributes to social development, having as principle the equal access to education, managing to prepare students at this level of education according to the Standardized levels of quality thus contributing to their human development, economic status and quality of life, in order to satisfy their subjective well-being perspective.