La gerencia universitaria en los postgrados bajo la modalidad de educación abierta y a distancia

The objective of this study was to generate a theoretical explanation of university management in the postgraduate programs of the National Open University (UNA) of Venezuela. The context was the Directorate of Research and Postgraduate Studies (DIP) of the UNA. The study units were comprised by six (6) coordinators of the graduate programs of this directorate. This research design fits into the category of a field study, and a contemporary and multivariable crosssectional approach. The method used was the grounded theory whose data revealed new concepts and relationships that were built analytically and systematically, in order to organize the categories in terms of their properties, which in turn served to elaborate the theoretical explanation. The epistemic approach was based on structuralism; the type of research was explanatory and the data analysis techniques used were qualitative. In-depth interviews were used through a matrix of categories for the different topics related to the conditions present in the University’s management. Results indicated that, in these management processes, there are fundamental elements such as planning, organizing, directing, controlling and evaluating that are present as pre-existing conditions, while the conditions that accompanied these processes were administration, teaching and research. The postgraduate programs were compared, and several relevant or significant conditions emerged within the framework of the categories developed in the University’s management, and with which their theoretically generated relations were formulated. L'objectif de la recherche était de générer une explication théorique de la gestion universitaire dans les programmes de troisième cycle de l'Université nationale ouverte (UNA) du Venezuela. Le contexte était la Direction de la recherche et desétudes supérieures (DIP) de l'UNA. Les unités d'étude ont été formées par six (6) coordonnateurs des programmes d'études supérieures de cette direction. Le design appliqué était champ, contemporain et multivariable transectional. La méthode utilisée était la théorie fondée qui a révélé à travers les données trouvées, de nouveaux concepts et relations qui ont été construits de manière analytique et systématique, dans le but de pouvoir organiser les catégories en termes de leurs propriétés, qui ont servi à élaborer le explication théorique L'approche épistémique était basée sur le structuralisme, le type de recherche était explicatif et les techniques