Cuban university encourages connectivity opportunities

 MATANZAS, Cuba, Jun 3 (ACN) The University of Matanzas (UM), in this western territory, an important center for the training of professionals and the development of science, encourages the use of connectivity opportunities designed for students and professors with a view to strengthening free educational environments.

Attentive to the criteria and concerns that have emerged as a result of the new provisions of the Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa by its Spanish acronym), the UM considers it appropriate to remind its community of the existing variants for free digital navigation.

Juan Veliz Alonso, general director of the UM, explained that within the center there is a system of Etecsa wifi points that, through specific URL addresses, favor the link to virtual repositories with bibliography for students and professors.

According to Veliz Alonso, a contract of the Ministry of Higher Education with the Cuban Telecommunications Company allows access to repositories such as EVA (Virtual Learning Environment) and Moodle (online learning platform) from any wifi point, enabled inside and outside the university.

In addition to this opportunity, which has been in force since the period of the Covid-19 pandemic, the UM wifi, active in the university campus, offers connection to any Internet platform (Facebook, Whatsapp, Youtube) through a user associated to each student and professor.

The director explained that from the first year every student can create Internet accounts through the Department of Networks to explore the benefits of UM wifi through portable electronic devices and the network of laboratories of the center with 24-hour services.

In the interest of promoting access to institutional repositories and other platforms that facilitate the consumption of digital scientific content, the University of Matanzas has a network interconnected by fiber optics to enable students and professors to search for online content.