To face preventive isolation, the Universidad del Cauca is carrying out important training for the management of teaching, learning and evaluation from home.

With greetings to the university community, Professor Miguel Hugo Corchuelo, director of the Center for Quality Management and Institutional Accreditation at the University of Cauca, reported on the work currently being carried out at the University of Cauca with his professors before the need to resort to home learning management systems.

For the development of this activity, the experience accumulated during the last seven years by the Educational Innovations team was counted, in particular with that acquired in the four cohorts of the Diploma in Educational Innovations led by that team. This was the basis for organizing the Management in Teaching, Learning and Evaluation Course from Home.

In addition to the experience of human talent, it was necessary to evaluate the connectivity possibilities that the Institution has. At this time, the University, through the email service, has the Google suite where you can take advantage of a wide range of applications such as the classroom and video call meetings, among others.

There is also the Moodle option, these two for use by students and teachers. Other aspects to consider to strengthen the educational processes were: the construction of audiovisual materials with free tools, the perspective of active-reflexive learning, the model of the inverted class, planning from the perspective of accessible curricula and evaluation from House.

Likewise, to safeguard the missionary objectives in this time of social isolation, the university directive made crucial decisions regarding educational policy, in order to deal with the teaching field in its entirety in the current educational scenario of suspension of face-to-face classes due to the coronavirus pandemic, which requires seeking different strategies to strengthen the link between teachers and students.

In this way, 816 requests from teachers could be met, managed through the deanships.

The balance in general terms is considered positive, since this training is not reduced to the period of the pandemic, but rather constitutes an opportunity of transcendence insofar as it encourages teachers to reflect on their praxis as teachers when considering new alternatives from the Educational innovations, particularly those available through ICT to face the challenges of the 21st century, said the director of the Center for Quality Management and Institutional Accreditation.

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