RESUMO
Se realizó una revisión sobre el sistema de créditos académicos y su aplicación en la educación superior, partiendo del concepto de créditos académicos, que surgen como una necesidad para establecer comparaciones y equivalencias a escala internacional, además de permitir la movilidad estudiantil y profesoral. Se revisa su aplicación en las universidades de Europa, Norteamérica y América Latina, y se expresan las consideraciones en Cuba donde existe la experiencia solamente en la formación posgraduada. Se toman en consideraciones los conclaves celebrados en Europa y Latinoamérica sobre el tema.
The system of academic credits and its implementation in the higher education was made based on the concept of academic credits emerging from the need of making comparisons and finding equivalences at international scale, in addition to facilitating the mobility of professors and students to other institutions. Its implementation in European, American and Latin American universities was reviewed and the final considerations about this issue in Cuba, where the experience accumulated just in the graduate education, were also stated. This paper took into account the events about this topic held in Europe and Latin America.