Comunidades virtuales para promover la innovación académica universitaria: UNA realidad
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2010
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Coto Chotto, Mayela
Mora Rivera, Sonia
Corrales, Xinia
Dirckinck-Holmfeldr, Lone
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Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica)
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Los nuevos avances en las tecnologías para la información y comunicación (TIC) y los enfoques pedagógicos modernos crean nuevas oportunidades para diseñar ambientes innovadores de aprendizaje. Sin embargo, a pesar de los esfuerzos significativos que se realizan en las universidades para cambiar la naturaleza del aprendizaje, el modelo tradicional de educación es todavía ampliamente utilizado, y constituye una de las principales razones la inadecuada preparación de los académicos para enfrentar estos nuevos retos. Este artículo muestra los resultados preliminares de una iniciativa que se desarrolló en la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA) mediante el proyecto “Comunidad de Práctica Virtual para la Innovación Académica en las Sedes Regionales de la Universidad Nacional”, el cual pretende promover un cambio cualitativo en la práctica docente de los académicos de las sedes regionales con el desarrollo y la aplicación de estrategias pedagógicas innovadoras y las TIC, creando a la vez condiciones para lograr un mayor grado de comunicación y compañerismo entre los docentes de las sedes regionales. El proyecto buscaba explorar un cambio en el enfoque de desarrollo profesional, de una formación tradicional a un aprendizaje en la práctica, utilizando para esto las estructuras conceptuales de las comunidades de práctica.
Advances in information and communication technology, and modern pedagogical approaches are creating new opportunities to design innovative environments to support learning. However, in despite of significant efforts to change the nature of learning, the traditional model of education is still widely practiced in universities, being one of the main reasons the inadequate academics preparation to face the new challenges. The paper presents the preliminary results of an initiative that was carried-out by the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA) in the project named “Virtual Communities of Practice for Educational Innovation at the Regional Campuses of the National Univer-sity”, which overall aim is to foster an innovation in the teaching practice of UNA regional campuses teachers, through the use of innovative pedagogical approaches and information and communication technology to enhance learning and through building of social relationships and trust among academics. In addition the project aims to make a change of focus of training from formal training to learning in practice, based on the conceptual framework of communities of practice.
Advances in information and communication technology, and modern pedagogical approaches are creating new opportunities to design innovative environments to support learning. However, in despite of significant efforts to change the nature of learning, the traditional model of education is still widely practiced in universities, being one of the main reasons the inadequate academics preparation to face the new challenges. The paper presents the preliminary results of an initiative that was carried-out by the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA) in the project named “Virtual Communities of Practice for Educational Innovation at the Regional Campuses of the National Univer-sity”, which overall aim is to foster an innovation in the teaching practice of UNA regional campuses teachers, through the use of innovative pedagogical approaches and information and communication technology to enhance learning and through building of social relationships and trust among academics. In addition the project aims to make a change of focus of training from formal training to learning in practice, based on the conceptual framework of communities of practice.
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COMUNIDADES DE PRÁCTICA, DESARROLLO PROFESIONAL DOCENTE, TECNOLOGÍAS DE INFORMACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN, PRACTICAL COMMUNITIES, PROFESSIONAL TEACHING DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES