Métodos de investigación y diagnóstico en educación, avances en competencias transversales y docencia universitaria en la era del conocimiento y la tecnología


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Desde el Grupo de Innovación Docente "Aprendizaje, Servicio y Sociedad", hemos trabajado con el propósito de establecer un puente entre la educación superior y las demandas cambiantes de la sociedad. Los capítulos de esta obra contribuyen de manera significativa a la investigación en docencia, centrándose en métodos de investigación y diagnóstico, así como en los avances en competencias transversales, aprendizaje-servicio, gamificación, metodologías activas, salud y la docencia universitaria. Esperamos que los contenidos presentados inspiren a docentes, investigadores y estudiantes a avanzar en la mejora continua de la educación.




Nuevas metodologías didácticas


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El Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior ha supuesto un cambio de paradigma en los modelos de enseñanza aprendizaje en la universidad. A la tradicional función de transmisión de conocimientos, en la sociedad de la información, aparecen nuevos retos, que sitúan en el centro del proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje al estudiante, a través de las competencias y los resultados de aprendizaje. La función docente ya no consiste, sólo, en transmitir conocimiento, sino sobre todo, favorecer, facilitar la adquisición de habilidades, destrezas y actitudes en torno a las temáticas objeto de estudio. Esto implica cambios en la actividad docente y discente Todos y todas defendemos la mejora y calidad de la enseñanza, pero la larga tradición universitaria y, aún hoy en día poderosísimas instituciones, supeditan la práctica docente por la acción investigadora, cuya práctica suele atribuir, por otra parte, mayor prestigio a quien la practica. De ninguna manera, sino más bien al contrario, debe entenderse que intentamos decir que la investigación no sea un contenido obligatorio y un contenido básico de desarrollo del docente universitario y además de compromiso con la sociedad; sin embargo, tenemos otro compromiso asociado y derivado de éste que nos exige devolver nuestros hallazgos a la sociedad en su conjunto mediante instrumentos y circuitos convencionales o mediante la reflexión y práctica didáctica. De otra parte, la universidad española en el proceso de cambio de la mano de la convergencia Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, el rediseño de programas constituye una magnifica oportunidad para la creación conjunta y coherente de proyectos que superando los paradigmas basados en modelos docentes individualistas y centrados en un solo profesor; puedan configurarse espacios y tiempos para el planteamiento de proyectos compartidos, ofreciendo al alumnado una formación de vanguardia. Planteamos en esta obra distintas miradas y esfue...




Competencias transversales


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Competencias Transversales para una sociedad basada en Conocimiento es una obra que se ubica en el contexto de los modelos de educación basada en competencias, y pretende satisfacer una necesidad que enfrentan muchos profesores en ejercicio: estos pueden dominar bien sus disciplinas, y saben cómo enseñarlas, pero desconocen cómo pueden ayudar a sus estudiantes a desarrollar un conjunto de competencias transversales (o genéricas) que los planes de estudio están demandando. Con esta necesidad en mente, surgió la iniciativa en el Tecnológico de Monterrey, de formar un grupo de investigación orientado a estudiar a profundidad el tema de las competencias transversales en el contexto de una sociedad basada en conocimiento.




University and School Collaborations During a Pandemic


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Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this open access book shows that, amidst the significant challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, universities found ways to engage with schools to support them in sustaining educational opportunity. In doing so, they generated considerable innovation, which reinforced the integration of the research and outreach functions of the university. The evidence suggests that universities are indeed open systems, in interaction with their environment, able to discover changes that can influence them and to change in response to those changes. They are also able, in the success of their efforts to mitigate the educational impact of the pandemic, to create better futures, as the result of the innovations they can generate. This challenges the view of universities as "ivory towers" being isolated from the surrounding environment and detached from local problems. As they reached out to schools, universities not only generated clear and valuable innovations to sustain educational opportunity and to improve it, this process also contributed to transform internal university processes in ways that enhanced their own ability to deliver on the third mission of outreach




Shaping the future we want


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How to Measure Survey Reliability and Validity


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UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles Aimed at helping readers improve the accuracy of their survey, Litwin′s book guides in assessing and interpreting the quality of their survey data by thoroughly examining the survey instrument used. The book also explains how to code and pilot test new and established surveys. In addition, it covers such issues as how to measure reliability (e.g., test-retest, alternate-form, internal consistency, inter-observer, and intra-observer reliability), how to measure validity (including content, criterion, and construct validity), how to address cross-cultural issues in survey research, and how to scale and score a survey. "I found this work to be of very high quality with respect to both content and writing. It is commendable in terms of communicating and facilitating understanding of sometimes difficult concepts. It will make an excellent text for my introductory course on survey research and, I imagine, for many similar or related courses in the social sciences or education. All the pedagogical features, including the exercises, are excellent, and the level of writing throughout not only is appropriate for an introductory volume, but also engaging and lively." --Daniel U. Levine, Department of Education, University of Nebraska




Engaging People in Sustainability


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The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].




Qualitative approaches to research on plurilingual education / Enfocaments qualitatius per a la recerca en educació plurilingüe / Enfoques cualitativos para la investigación en educación plurilingüe


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This handbook is a guide for researchers in plurilingual education. It introduces notions of collaborative research, action-research, ethnography, conversation analysis and mediated discourse analysis. It also discusses ethics, how to collect and organize plurilingual and multimodal corpora, and write up research papers.Aquest manual és una guia per a la recerca en educació plurilingüe. S'hi introdueixen conceptes de recerca col·laborativa, recerca-acció, etnografia, anàlisi de la conversa i anàlisi del discurs mediat. També s'hi discuteixen qüestions d'ètica, maneres de recopilar i organitzar corpus plurilingües i multimodals, i d’escriure textos de recerca.Este manual es una guía para la investigación en educación plurilingüe. Se introducen conceptos de investigación colaborativa, investigación-acción, etnografía, análisis de la conversación y análisis del discurso mediado. También se discuten cuestiones de ética, maneras de recopilar y organizar corpus plurilingües y multimodales, y de redactar textos de investigación.




Train Your Brain


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Dr Kawashima's brain training will change your life... Like the body, the brain needs exercise. And Dr Ryuta Kawashima, world-renowned professor of neuroscience at Tohoku University and the expert behind the bestselling computer game Dr Kawashima's Brain Training, has dedicated his life to researching exactly how we can make our brains work better. Here are the results - in a highly rewarding programme of carefully chosen, yet deceptively simple activities. Each day you fill in a worksheet of exercises and with weekly self-tests and a personal logbook you can track your progress. Taking just a few minutes a day over two months, you really can boost your brain power and creativity. Join the Dr Kawashima revolution today.




The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education


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This volume of essays from leading British, North American and Australasian contributors looks at the issues of the convergence of distance and conventional education. The term 'convergence' refers to the breaking down of barriers between open and distance learning and conventional institutions, and the creation of more and more institutions working across a range of modes. Such convergence has been driven by a number of factors, including the new technologies for teaching and learning, the impact of lifelong learning policies, the entry of larger than ever numbers of adult part-time students into tertiary education, and the demands of both employers and individuals for professional and work-related education throughout their working lives. The fourteen chapters engage critically with a range of aspects of convergence, including: * how well is open and distance learning carried out by conventional institutions for which it may continue for a lengthy period to be seen as of secondary importance? * to what extent will open and distance learning be more effectively carried out by conventional institutions able to offer a variety of modes to a wide range of learners? * how well will the variety of learners be served by systems that are converging? * what are the managerial issues at institutional level where converging systems are being developed?