The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) presented the 2025 Educational Model of the Open University and Distance Learning System (SUAyED), an institutional proposal that seeks to strengthen the flexibility, openness, and accessibility of university teaching through a scheme that integrates open education, distance learning, and the formal incorporation of a blended modality.
The new model is positioned as a guide for the evolution of non-face-to-face modalities, aligned with university principles and the contemporary challenges of higher education. Flexibility is the axis for expanding educational access. During the presentation, Patricia Dolores Dávila Aranda, General Secretary of UNAM, explained that SUAyED 2025 is designed to democratize access to education, allowing geographical distance or personal circumstances not to be an obstacle to pursuing quality university studies.
She indicated that the proposal seeks to become a driver of opportunities for students from Mexico and abroad, by offering more open and adaptable educational pathways. Its application will be differentiated, according to the contexts, conditions, and resources of each university entity. The model, she added, is conceived to be applied broadly, differentiated, and articulated, strengthening the training, dissemination, and linkage processes among the open, distance, and blended modalities.
Martha Diana Bosco Hernández, coordinator of the working group for the updating of the SUAyED Educational Model, explained that the document is characterized by its innovative approach and by integrating multiple interconnected elements that operate at different levels of the educational ecosystem. She highlighted as one of the central advances the formal incorporation of the blended modality, which recognizes the articulation between face-to-face and digital environments, leveraging the strengths of both to promote autonomous and flexible learning, always in compliance with university regulations.
