The Spanish commission was made up of authorities from the Energy and Environment Technology Center and the Murcia Development Institute.

Within the framework of the work to strengthen the Linkage with the Environment activity carried out by the University of La Serena, in the areas of research, development and innovation (R+D+i), the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés , accompanied by the Vice-Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Dr. Eduardo Notte, the Director of Institutional Studies and Baking, Mg. César Espíndola, together with undergraduate and graduate academics, and the technical work team, met with a delegation from Murcia, Spain, with the objective of establishing in the short term a strategic work alliance with the Energy and Technology Technology Center. Environment (CETENMA) and the Murcia Development Institute.

This initiative of Linking with the Environment, according to Rector Avilés, is due to the fact that “we are working so that, through collaboration with different regional, national and international organizations, we can, through our research, provide solutions to the needs of the different development sectors of our territory; Hence, the experience that CETENMA and the Murcia Development Institute can provide us, in matters such as sustainable development of investments, energy and efficient management of water resources, are fundamental, since these topics have been defined as strategic axes of the region and of which we have taken charge.”

Interest in the University of La Serena

For the Director of the Development Institute of the Region of Murcia (INFOMURCIA), Juan Antonio Bernabé, “this meeting with the University of La Serena is very relevant since, together with planning and achieving the exchange of experiences in the field of innovation , technological development and innovation, will allow us to reduce the technological gaps in our productive fabric, in pursuit of sustainable development of the territories.”

After the meeting, managed through the Regional Corporation for Productive Development, collaborative work was agreed in the coming months, which will be made official through an agreement that will seek to provide solutions to common problems, considering the work already existing by the organizations. participants.

By way of information, this activity is due to the consolidation of an intentional agenda that allows the consolidation of the University of La Serena as a reference in the social, cultural, economic and productive development of the Coquimbo Region and the country.

The ULS was in charge of receiving representatives of two state universities belonging to the University Network for Initial Teacher Training (RUEFIP), to discuss the application of the first-year Diagnostic Evaluation.

As part of the actions established by the higher education institutions that make up the RUEFIP network, is the application of the initial diagnostic test, which is taken by first-year pedagogy students. This instance arises as a result of what is mandated by Law 20.903 that creates the Teaching Development System, which states that all universities must apply a diagnostic evaluation at the beginning of the degree.

In this context, the representatives of the U. of Bío Bío and the U. of Antofagasta visited the ULS with the purpose of aligning and analyzing the aspects to be measured in said evaluation, the results of which must define support and leveling mechanisms for their students.

In the first instance, the participants analyzed the experiences of the U. of Bío Bío and the U. of Antofagasta in the implementation of the first diagnostic test in 2017, making known the characteristics, successes and difficulties presented. From this, the need was expressed to review the implementation process and make adjustments in relation to the discrepancies that may have arisen from the first online application.

Regarding the projections of the 2018 evaluation, it was decided to apply the Scale of Representations for the Teaching Profession and the Educational Talent and Soft Skills Questionnaire.

On the other hand, the Student Mobility Program was reviewed, proposing a duration of no less than one semester with creditable activities, which allows the exchange of students to be operational in relation to the Credit Transfer System.

Likewise, within what was agreed at the conference, the attendees determined the holding of a meeting of technical teams to make adjustments to the test, protocols and training for said application.

“I don't know of a more optimal time than the current one where pedagogies are in a more advantageous position to improve. What has been done lately in all higher education institutions and in legislation, are very good resources so that pedagogies in Chile definitely have a favorable qualitative leap and develop in a way like they never did before; This is due to the trajectory that universities have followed, especially those of CRUCH, from 2003 to date with everything related to curricular innovation,” said the ULS Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Jorge Catalán, on the occasion.

Furthermore, and in accordance with the provisions of Law 20.903, this initial test is added to the FID National Evaluation, which must be taken as a mandatory requirement to obtain the title by all pedagogy students who are twelve months after graduation.

The next conference will be held during the month of March and will bring together the technical teams and representatives of the PMI.

Source: PMI FIP ULS1501 Press

The courses were carried out within the framework of the activities programmed by the Integrated Pedagogy Management Unit (UGIP) and the Teaching Improvement Unit (UMD), in accordance with the provisions of the PMI FIP ULS1501 and the Implementation Plan.

Various work sessions were held in the month of January with the purpose of updating and strengthening the skills of academics and professors who teach classes in ULS pedagogy courses. In this way, the topics addressed were related to the use of ICT and the challenges demanded by curricular redesign.

One of the courses was related to the use of ICT and was directed by Dr. Hugo Tapia, who addressed topics on the effective use of Internet search engines, basic aspects of the Google Drive platform and, finally, on advanced document editing in word processors. Likewise, he developed the course on the design and application of probing questions.

On the other hand, Dr. Rodrigo Ruay was in charge of teaching the course on evaluation for learning, which had the purpose of updating knowledge based on a reflection of the teaching practices themselves, referring to the approaches, procedures and design of evaluation instruments consistent with the declared curriculum of each career.

In this case, the participants were able to understand the evaluation as an integrated and coherent process with the University's curricular approach and with their professional work, which requires the use of appropriate evaluation procedures and instruments for decision making.

Attendees worked in group workshops where they had to analyze an evaluation activity, plan it, and design an instrument based on the learning outcome.

Finally, the UMD team led by Dr. Pamela Labra, together with professors Angeline Lotito and Gerardo Galleguillos, carried out the learning outcomes formulation course, in which attendees performed various exercises with the purpose of working on their own subjects and review the aspects that contributed to each of the standards
of their respective careers.

"What we were interested in achieving was to be able to contextualize the work of the workshop in the broader logic of the process of curricular renewal of pedagogies (...), therefore the work focused on the graduation profile and learning results, the para what to work on and after what,” specified Dr. Labra.

For the professor of the Department of Psychology, Cristian Rojas, who teaches classes in Pedagogy in Basic General Education, “the courses helped me in several aspects, some related to technological and computer elements that will allow me to save a large amount of time in preparing articles and works. Furthermore, this can help me transmit it to my own students,” he noted.

It is worth remembering that on January 22 and 23 the “Case Study” workshop will be held at UMD 1.

Source: PMI FIP ULS1501 Press

The activity was aimed at children between 5 and 10 years old, children of officials from the University of La Serena.

The Human Resources Department of the University of La Serena, concerned with providing leisure options to the children of the institution's officials, organized the summer 08 version of the “Entertaining Vacations” between January 12 and 2018.

The activity was attended by 43 children between 5 and 10 years old, led by 3 monitors who coordinated the development of the program, which included: sports mornings on Avenida del Mar and the Mutual de Seguridad Pool, XD cinema and the COCO movie, educational workshops in Dentistry, among others.

To the delight of the children, the activity ended with an entertaining “water war”, an event that marked the finishing touch to the program specially defined to celebrate the occasion.

The “Entertaining Vacations” are part of the initiatives organized by the University of La Serena, through its Human Resources Department, to integrate the youngest members of the ULS community, in a period where families sometimes find themselves difficult. for the care of their children, thus contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of the university community.

During the activity, the gender approach, the violation of women's rights, patriarchy and hetero-patriarchy, female liberation and how feminism responds to a new trend in the social sciences were discussed.
 
In the TV Studio of the School of Journalism of the University of La Serena, the Conversation “Bodies, Politics and Micromachismos” was held, given by the Argentine sociologist Eugenia Scirpo.

The activity addressed points such as the gender approach, violation of women's rights, patriarchy and hetero-patriarchy, female liberation and how feminism responds to a new trend in the social sciences, which has studies and research methodologies. All these topics focused from a perspective of feminist epistemology.  

"Without a doubt, Chilean society is opening up spaces for debate and it is good that the University does not isolate itself and is not left out of debates that are taking place at a social level, and that these types of instances exist, it seems to me that it is a place of construction of citizenship and a space for the production of meaning,” said Scirpo.

The sociologist added that "people have given themselves the space because they need to know the paths and strategies of action to create a more open and democratic Chilean society and truly where there is room for everyone."

This conversation was organized by the academics of the Department of Social Sciences of the University of La Serena, Marcela Altamirano and Carolina Rodríguez, in conjunction with the College of Journalists - Coquimbo Council.

“This talk was born out of a personal concern, we wanted to address this issue from an academic but also a social perspective to value women who have had our rights undermined for many years, proof of this is that very recently we have access to education and voting,” Rodríguez indicated about the holding of this instance.

“These types of talks promote education on the subject and from there we began to talk about feminist movements. All social movements in democracy are important, citizens have to become part of this discussion, we cannot leave decisions that are so important for women in the hands of certain institutions of power,” she concluded.

For her part, Nathalie Castillo, president of the College of Journalists - Coquimbo Council, expressed that “we are always willing to collaborate with the School of Journalism, much more so when these issues such as the gender approach are discussed. As a College of Journalists we have always been working on an agenda that allows us to reduce gender gaps and position these issues through communications workers, journalists and the media, who are also reproducers of these inequalities. So advancing in workshops or any type of activities that can be carried out for the community contributes a lot, which is why we found that it was a successful conversation.”

In this way, it is expected to continue advancing on these types of topics, leaving the door open to new workshops and conversations on the gender approach and the progress that is being made on this issue in the country.

Source: School of Journalism

The initiative was born from the collaborative work deployed by the Directorate of Institutional Studies and Planning to support the PMI FIPULS Institutional Improvement Plan for Pedagogies.

“Hack your class” was called the training session that Microsoft professionals carried out for teachers belonging to the University of La Serena, who had the opportunity to update knowledge and learn new programming techniques, in order to be able to apply them in the classroom and offer a innovative material to their students.

This training, which included the protocol greeting of the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés Pizarro, was part of the cooperative work carried out by the Directorate of Institutional Studies and Planning and the company Microsoft, which since 2017 has supported different projects aimed at the implementation of new technologies and learning processes to the ULS educational community.

“For our university, it is very important to have this type of alliance, since it allows us to strengthen our teaching staff and also position ourselves in new technologies. The constant work that is being done to update knowledge, as well as the work that is deployed from the PMI of Pedagogies, makes it clear that we want to be hand in hand with new processes, and this support through Microsoft is very significant," he stated. the first authority of the ULS.

Also present on the occasion was the Director of Education at Microsoft, Raimundo Valenzuela, who was emphatic in saying that this alliance with the University of La Serena is part of the responsibility that Microsoft has as an educational community, and that for this reason it was the first house of studies chosen to begin a journey through different institutions training teachers interested in innovations, which will be part of the change in thinking to train new generations of teachers.

The teachers who received this training in an intensive block day were able to learn about technology that can be incorporated to stimulate new ideas in the class process.

For the Director of Institutional Studies and Planning, Mg. César Espíndola, this work is part of the policies of continuous improvement and linkage with the regional and national environment that the University has, and assured that these instances not only benefit ULS teachers but also pedagogy graduates, who are were interested in participating in this transfer event.

The ULS teachers and pedagogy graduates learned about the Arduino programming system, taught by the programming expert, Ignacio Cormach, current technical specialist in education in the Microsoft community. It should be noted that this type of programming is an open source electronic prototyping platform based on flexible and easy-to-use hardware and software. It is designed for artists, designers, as a hobby and for anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

Source: DEIP Press