SPECIALIST IN UNIVERSITY TEACHING

Program Presentation

The specialization in University Teaching develops the skills required by today's university teacher, guaranteeing learning environments that make possible an updated and solid conceptual structure about the field of higher education, allowing the teacher to guide, accompany and formulate educational programs in accordance with national and international trends about university teaching in the context of the socio-cultural reality of the country.

Mission

The program's mission is to train specialists in university teaching with a solid qualification in university pedagogy and didactics, where critical, reflective, argumentative and investigative thinking prevails, allowing the teacher to signify or resignify their pedagogical-didactic practices in the face of unique, changing, complex and uncertain situations that make up the life of the university classroom and thus have a positive impact on the training of university students in the various professions or disciplines.

Vision

The vision of the program is to train professional specialists with integrity, who incorporate ethics in their practices. University teaching as the protagonist and articulator of the formative processes at the professional level, must guarantee that teaching and learning facilitate the use of tools and technologies within the framework of teaching, pedagogical practices and evaluation processes in accordance with the demands of the different areas of knowledge and the needs of the context.

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Why study the Specialization in University Teaching at UNINAVARRA?

Discover the benefits that will transform your academic career

University Transformation

Because teaching in the university requires understanding the meaning and transformation of the university, and developing its own capacities to construct knowledge and support its production and communication.

Reflective Practice

In addition, because today's teacher must be trained as a reflective subject and submit his or her teaching practices to study and permanent improvement.

Learning and Evaluation

Because the university teacher must know how the university student learns and how he/she can be evaluated in a formative sense.

Technological Mediations

At this moment in history, teachers must make pedagogical use of technological mediations as tools for learning, interaction and professionalization of their students.

Ethical and Contextual Dimension

Additionally, teachers must understand their pedagogical practice in its ethical and moral dimension and in the context of the Colombian political, social and cultural reality and within the post-conflict scenario and the construction of peace scenarios.

Teaching Quality

Program with high quality teaching and innovative pedagogical practices that guarantee academic excellence.

Academic Excellence

Culmination of the training process with the integration of all the elements developed throughout the program, preparing the teacher for an integral and quality pedagogical practice.

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    ADDITIONAL BENEFITS

    Programa con gran calidad docente y prácticas pedagógicas innovadoras que te prepararán con metodologías de vanguardia en el ámbito educativo.
    Aprende con un equipo de docentes altamente calificados, que integran metodologías activas y experiencias transformadoras en la educación superior.
    Mirada territorial, enfocada en los desafíos y rol del docente en la región surcolombiana, adaptándose a las necesidades específicas de nuestro contexto.
    Forma parte de un programa que reconoce y responde a las realidades educativas del sur colombiano, promoviendo la transformación desde lo local.
    Avanza en tu formación académica: los créditos cursados en la especialización pueden ser homologados en programas de maestría afines.
    Homologación del año completo de la especialización para cursar en un sóloaño la Maestría en Docencia mediada con las TIC (virtual) de la Universidad de San Buenaventura, sede Bogotá (programa acreditado de alta calidad).
    Enjoy a flexible curriculum that allows you to adapt your learning process to your specific needs and schedules. specific needs and schedules.
    Estudia a tu ritmo con un plan de estudios adaptable a tus intereses profesionales y necesidades de tiempo.
    Theoretical-practical modules that combine academic knowledge with real application in the classroom and educational contexts. classroom and educational contexts.
    Estudia a tu ritmo con un plan de estudios adaptable a tus intereses profesionales y necesidades de tiempo.
    Electives with a territorial and community focus that connect you directly with the realities and needs of your local educational needs of your local educational environment.
    Profundiza en temáticas clave para tu contexto con enfoque social y comunitario.
    Research workshops applied to higher education that will train you as a researcher in the educational field with current methodologies. educational field with current methodologies.
    Desarrolla proyectos investigativos con impacto directo en la calidad educativa de tu entorno académico e institucional.

    Homologation of the Master's Degree in ICT-mediated Teaching (Virtual) of the Universidad de San Buenaventura, Bogotá (High Quality accredited program).

    Professional Profile

    The specialist in University Teaching will identify the main training trends in higher education, at international and national level, will know the current approaches to university learning, appropriating strategies and techniques that promote autonomous, meaningful, reflective and cooperative learning in higher education students.

    They will also acquire the skills to plan the university teaching process in a conscious and reflective manner, selecting teaching strategies and techniques in accordance with the disciplinary contents and the main technological mediations, derived from the ICT proposals, in order to appropriate a discourse that will support a technological Didactics.

    Also, it will recognize the current meaning of learning assessment in the university classroom and will identify the main techniques and instruments, according to the forms of participation according to the evaluative actors (Hetero-evaluation, co-evaluation and self-evaluation).

    Finally, he/she will be able to practice university teaching, within the Colombian contextual, political, social and cultural reality and within the post-conflict scenario and the construction of peace scenarios.

    Occupational Profile

    The specialist in University Teaching will be able to develop the following actions in both private and public higher education institutions:
    - Evaluate, build and develop pedagogical-didactic intervention programs for the teaching of professions and disciplines, in disciplinary teams and in technological institutions and Universities, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
    - Guide or accompany the re-construction of teaching programs, designing methodological constructions in accordance with the conceptual and methodological developments addressed in the specialization and the national and international trends regarding university teaching and the socio-cultural reality of the country (Post-conflict).
    - Identify problem areas from which to develop, in an interdisciplinary and collective manner, research processes around university education as a field of current development, both nationally and internationally.
    - To replicate in his institution and in those that demand him (as a multiplier) an updated and solid conceptual structure about the field of pedagogy and university didactics, identifying the components and essential dimensions of the disciplines: object of study, approaches, theories, methods; that overcome an instrumental, algorithmic and homogenizing look.

    Undergraduate Modalities

    The program has the following degree modalities established and approved for the Specialization in University Teaching program.
    In order to obtain the title of Specialist, in addition to the requirements established in the Postgraduate Regulations, the student must develop and present a written paper or a graduate work.
    The writings or works defined in the aforementioned regulations are:

    a) Construction of a research project approved by CIINA's Ethics/Bioethics and Scientific Committee for Research and Innovation.
    b) Scientific articles submitted for publication as results of research projects in progress at UNINAVARRA and in accordance with the postgraduate course he/she is pursuing.

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    UNINAVARRA facing the world

    We have an Internationalization Policy "UNINAVARRA FACING THE WORLD"which aims to offer the academic community a bridge between the local environment and the globalized world. Through its lines of action, it provides opportunities for interaction with the national and international environment in classroom and online mode, where you can live training experiences in other contexts, interact with people from different cultures, learn about the global dynamics and its social, cultural, economic, environmental changes, among others; enhance your career with national and international projection and strengthen your training as a global professional and citizen of the world.

    Lines of action and opportunities:
    - International Cooperation Management: Agreements, alliances, joint projects and networking with more than 200 institutions from different countries around the world such as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Spain, United States, Italy, Mexico, Peru, among others.
    - Academic Mobility Management: Student exchange opportunities during one or two academic periods throughout the development of the student's academic program in different types of mobility such as: Academic exchange (taking subjects), short course, internship, practicum, mission, research stay, observership and degree modalities. Teaching mobility as national and foreign visiting professors in your classroom.
    - Multiculturalism and Multilingualism Management: Activities that contribute to the development of intercultural competencies and communicative competence in a foreign language, mainly English as a universal language.
    - Management of the Internationalization of the Curriculum: Joint classes with other institutions through mirror class methodology or COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning).
    More information: https://uninavarra.edu.co/internacionalizacion/

    CONTACT US

    Mail University teaching office

    docenciauniversitaria@uninavarra.edu.co

    TESTIMONIALS FROM OUR GRADUATES

    Studying the Specialization in University Teaching at the Fundación Universitaria Navarra has been one of the most enriching academic experiences of my professional career. The program provided me with updated pedagogical tools, innovative approaches and a deep understanding of the transformative role of the teacher in the university environment.

    Leidy Johana Díaz Sánchez

    Leidy Johana Díaz Sánchez

    University Teaching Specialist

    Studying the Specialization in University Teaching was a turning point in my understanding of teaching. It allowed me to realize that many times the teaching-learning processes that we take for granted are not carried out properly and do not really respond to the needs of the students.

    Cristian Guillermo Serrano

    Cristian Guillermo Serrano

    University Teaching Specialist

    The specialization in university teaching has marked a before and after in my career as a lawyer and teacher. This experience has allowed me to acquire in-depth knowledge in innovative pedagogical strategies, active methodologies and educational technologies that have significantly enriched my teaching practice.

    Katerine Rivera Lizcano

    Katerine Rivera Lizcano

    University Teaching Specialist

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