The investigation on academic drop at ECACEN shows the major elements at play in this problem, based mainly in the light of these factors: academic performance, family income, educational level, type of institution, and age.UNAD as a higher education institution, and therefore UNAD’s Schoolof Administrative Sciences, Accounting, Economics and Business —ECACEN CEAD Simon Bolívar, in the city of Cartagena, is no alien ...

This article presents a review on the fundamental theoris in the field of distance learning, on the subject of formative assessment, especially concerning constructivism-based self-evaluation. Additionally from an Instructional Technology approach, ideas on self-evaluation within instructional design will be examined, as well as the strategies and actions proposed, so that students may use them to improve learning

This theoretical, descriptive and qualitative research encompasses a review of the biography gender and, in the field of basic sciences, a study on the development of research in math teaching. Based on that, the aim is to deploy a frame proposal, for the first terms in undergraduate studies, resulting in an educational research environment, which besides allowing students to establish a link between the history of ...

Building skills is one of the challenges contemporary education faces. The term’s mere definition has given rise to an important number of reflections, and even institutions have generated operational models. Nonetheless actual facts lead us to conclude that, so far, we can not talk about pedagogy and a didactic of skills. This text focuses on four key questions: How to build skills in virtual learning environments? ...

This article presents the results of a research process aiming to show, from a contextual reference, the meaning and scope of civic education for the exercise of democracy and social responsibility, based on university students’ understanding on the practice of democracy, social responsibility and human rights, considered as categories of analysis, and what the individual formation for civic practice by exercising ...

This article is based on the results of ethnographic research entitled: “Attitudes towards academic fraud in university” developed in the city of Pasto. “This research used different data collection techniques such as in-depth interviews, write-in-the-board and questionnaires. This information was analyzed with the method called “distill information”. Conclusions derived from this method offer contrasting results with ...

This article examines family and community daily life and its relationship to human development, having as a reference the following dimensions: family composition, educational, economic and housing conditions, habitat, family communication, relations with neighbors, conflict resolution and community shared activities. Priority is given to an integrating rather than individualized perspectivo of family and community ...

This article shows research results aimed to characterize the strategies used by youth music radio stations in Bogota in order to maintain or to increase their audience from an emerging notion of musical consumption using audio portable devices. Therefore, in the first stage, semi-structured interviews were conducted among employees to five FM music radio stations in the city, with the aim to establish the strategies ...

The National Open and Distance University (Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, —UNAD—) is the biggest one in Colombia because of its number of venues and students. Its sixty campus are spread over the Colombian territory; in some cases, separated among themselves by thousands of kilometers. This paper describes how UNAD’s innovation and technological management office prepared and developed a solution to resolve ...

This paper approaches the corpus of research on learning processes in virtual education by examining electronic and printed media in our country and abroad. This has been done in the last 10 years due to the growing interest in these issues among the academic community.Scientific production, to which system analysts have done relevant contributions, appears initially organized from the sources (articles, thesis,investigation ...