Within the framework of the Global Learning Communities project of the Mutis University Network, USIL launched the Digital Narratives course for students of the Communications Major, which simultaneously integrates, in a virtual space, students from Peru, Colombia and the Republic Dominican.

In an unprecedented event, twenty-two students from different countries share an educational space, they build knowledge collaboratively through digital tools.

 Thanks to the Vice Presidency of International Relations and its alliances with institutions from different parts of the world, USIL and six foreign universities carry out this initiative: Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Dominican Republic), Universidad de Ibagué, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios and Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Colombia).

 The course allows three USIL students to work collaboratively on the conceptualization, production and socialization of pieces of a digital nature, under the guidance of four international teachers with a long experience in the subject. Gerardo Karbaum Padilla, professor of the Communications Major and specialist in transmedia narrative, will dictate the last of the four modules of this subject. 

For the development of Digital Narratives, our students use the facilities of the USIL Digital Learning Factory and its content production and generation laboratories. There, its video conferencing system, cameras with high definition video, audio and monitoring modules allow each class to be taught optimally. 

“Our students will have the opportunity to learn how a cutting-edge digital narrative project is developed. Transmedia narrative is currently in vogue and it is essential to know how to construct stories through multiple digital tools, «said Pedro Córdova Piscoya, teacher and academic coordinator of the Communications Major, who was part of the group in charge of creating the content of the course.

 “For the students of the course, being in contact with professionals from other latitudes gives them a different vision of things. They will venture into a space where they can measure their knowledge with the level of foreign students”, explained the teacher. 

Committed to digital transformation, USIL promotes the new language of multimedia communication in its students and creates spaces that broaden their vision of the world.