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.
SPECIALIST IN UNIVERSITY TEACHING
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Why study the Specialization in University Teaching at UNINAVARRA?
Discover the benefits that will transform your academic career
University Transformation
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.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING COORDINATOR
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS
Aprende con un equipo de docentes altamente calificados, que integran metodologías activas y experiencias transformadoras en la educación superior.
Forma parte de un programa que reconoce y responde a las realidades educativas del sur colombiano, promoviendo la transformación desde lo local.
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).
Estudia a tu ritmo con un plan de estudios adaptable a tus intereses profesionales y necesidades de tiempo.
Estudia a tu ritmo con un plan de estudios adaptable a tus intereses profesionales y necesidades de tiempo.
Profundiza en temáticas clave para tu contexto con enfoque social y comunitario.
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.
Professors UNINAVARRA
Martha Cecilia Abella
Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Maria Camila Perdomo Fajardo
University Teaching Specialization Coordinator
CONTACT US
Mail University teaching office
docenciauniversitaria@uninavarra.edu.co


