From this Monday, May 23 to May 26, the First Training Workshop for the development of Digital Teaching Competencies will be held at the Osvaldo Herrera polytechnic in the Plaza de la Revolución municipality.

The appointment is part of the actions developed by the Directorate of Educational Technology (DTE) of the Cuban Ministry of Education to accompany the international collaboration project Strengthening Technical and Professional Education in the country (Profet).

Topics such as audiovisual production, production of digital content with free software tools, educational robotics with the Internet of Things, management of the Moodle Distance Education platform and programming code version control for the Computer Science specialty will be addressed by professors of the DT.

A representation of teachers from the 12 schools of this educational level, which in the western region are inserted in Profet, will participate in the meeting.

In the municipality of Boyeros are the two schools of Technical and Professional Education that in the capital are integrated into this project. They are: the José Martí Pérez Institute in the specialty of construction and the Rubén Martínez Villena, in Agriculture.

Since 2019, Profet began in Cuba, an international cooperation program sponsored by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Ministries of Education (Mined) and the Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (Mincex).

As part of this project, the country's polytechnics specializing in construction, agriculture, and hotel and tourism services have been provided with up-to-date bibliography, state-of-the-art technology that includes equipment, computer labs, for the study of the English language, veterinary clinic and set with furniture that allow gastronomy and hotel and tourism practices.