Article
Training in the use of the technologies and self-learning educational purposes
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Carranza Alcántar, M. del R., Jiménez Padilla, A. A., & Islas Torres, C. (2013). "Training in the use of the technologies and self-learning educational purposes". EDULEARN13 Proceedings, 5th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, 4674-4681.
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Autor
Carranza Alcántar, María del Rocío
Jiménez Padilla, Alma Azucena
Islas Torres, Claudia
Institución
Resumen
The fast progress of Technologies of information and communication (ICT’s) will keep on changing the
elaboration, acquisition and transmission of knowledge; thus the implementing and promotion of
training programs to develop skills and abilities related to the proper use of ICT’s focused on didactic
and self learning results imminent. Hence this paper describes the teacher education process that
took place in Centro Universitario de Los Altos, de la Universidad de Guadalajara which was
implemented after a diagnosis to detect deficiencies resulting in the need to provide teachers and
students with solid and pertinent knowledge that reinforce their skills and abilities in the use of
pedagogy and self management as well as adjusting teaching techniques to the new virtualization
process realities and the importance of educating learners on the proper use of information presented
through ICT’s. Therefore a strategy was designed to train a pilot group of 29 teachers and 32 students
whom in turn became `duplicators of this education experience to their peers thus ensuring to train 93
teachers and 167 students. Afterwards a new measuring instrument was applied to evaluate the
impact of this project which measured if in educational daily practice technologies were applied with
pedagogic and learning purposes; such instrument was composed of 12 items that took into account
categories of common use of technologies, social nets, moodle platform for teachers; concerning
students a revision of what technologies were used, their perception toward technologies used by
teachers and the importance they give to ICT’s in their learning process was made, at the end the
initial diagnosis and the results from the measuring instrument previously designed were compared
highlighting the benefits that this type of training renders on the teaching learning process.