Revista de Investigaciones UNAD: Recent submissions

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    • Factors discouraging school attendance of students from administration science faculty UNAD-CEAD Simón Bolívar - Cartagena 

      Del Toro Díaz, William (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      The study of school dropout in ECACEN, presents the most important elements of this problem mainly based in the light of the factors: academic performance, family income, academic level, type and age. The ECACEN CEAD Simón Bolívar School is not exempt from this phenomenon. The statistics of desertion from the last two years show the following data; from period 2007-II to period 2008-I the dropout was 37%, and for period ...

    • Educational tourism 

      Silva Calpa, Alicia Cristina (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      This research is based on contributions from education have been made to the tourism in different contexts. The tourism educative term has been adopted, to refer to all the actions derive from the academy, training, as well as all the educational processes that allow the diffusion of customs, traditions and cultural patrimony of a region. The pilot study was developed in the department of Nariño which has great diversity ...

    • Education in values program. Moral formation in secondary education students 

      Sanz Ponce, Roberto; Mula Benavent, José M. (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      The expression “educating in values” may seem redundant at first sight, because we think it’s impossible to educate in a different way. However, it’s not enough that the teachers declare the values, it would be necessary to implement a certain teaching styles that would promote the relations between teachers and students, and between them and the curriculum content. The family enviroment should not be oblivious to this ...

    • Curriculum design of tourism academic program made from a problematical core: A regional experience 

      Torres Zamudio, Marleny (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      The problems facing certain economic sectors identified throughknowledge maps of different regions represent a basic input for planning of higher education academic programs, under the curriculum model of problematical cores.This article presents the experience of problematical cores identification as central elements in planning a curriculum proposed for the tourism area. Identifying additionally skills and competencies ...

    • EDITORIAL 

      Acuña Gómez, Myriam (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      Continuando con una actitud vehemente frente a uno de los propósitos institucionales contemplados en la responsabilidades sustantivas de la universidad, como lo constituye la investigación y anhelando prevalecer en el avance cauteloso y certero dentro de la comunidadcientífica ganando cada vez más espacio y un mayor posicionamiento en cuanto a calidad se refiere, la “Revista de Investigaciones UNAD” propende porque en ...

    • How to Improve Communicative Competence in Distance learning. 

      Herrera de Castellanos, Carolina (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      This study refers to Communicative Competence. The focus is ona better interaction of Learners and Educators on the assumptionthat different generations operate.. It is important the observation of cultural characteristics regardless of modality of systems. Skills development is in values and attitudes that assume the learner, without them the subjects do not appropriated knowledge and don’t develop skills. Thus the ...

    • EDITORIAL 

      Montenegro, Leonardo (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      Podemos decir que la educación en el país está en crisis; por una parte los malos resultados en las pruebas PISA, y por otra los problemas de infraestructura de las universidades públicas, sólo son dos de los puntos que se han destacado recientemente en la prensa nacional. Sin embargo, la crisis es más profunda y pasa por años de abandono estatal de las universidades públicas, de falta de preparación y capacitación ...

    • Solving problems in the virtual forum 

      Guerra Gómez, Sandra Lucía (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      This paper presents part of the research results conducted with basic education students of the distance learning program from Universidad Pedagógica Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC). The main goal was to describe and analyze how learning through problem solving in the virtual forum. This study was based on a case study where was analyzed information obtained from the application of different strategy that employed in ...

    • Research in technology education from approach of technological culture 

      Munévar García, Pablo Alexander (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      This study presents a series of contributions over the relevance of the approach of the technological culture concept as an integrator element of the several approaches that establish the technological knowledge and ways of being incorporated in school. This as relevant aspect to be consider in the training of future teachers in the field of technology from research and innovation perspective.

    • Emotional intelligence: a necessary tool for leadership. Concept and components 

      Martínez Percy, Armando Martin (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      The emotional intelligence (EI) will be the most important tool and/or resource of the XXI century to survive in a season of “constant change”. EI is essential to increase the professional performance and the personal well-being especially in complex professions that include personal relations as center and principal motor of the activity: education, human resource,communication, and so on. Daniel Goleman (1995) is ...

    • Teaching and didactics strategies for the development of multiple intelligence and autonomous learning 

      Gamboa Mora, María Cristina; García Sandoval, Yenny; Beltrán Acosta, Marlén (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      This study presents an assessment of the teaching and didactics strategies implemented in a School, located in the city of Ubalá, Inspection of Laguna Azul, Bogotá-Colombia. The articulation is described based on Howard Gardner proposal (1983) which relates to the development of multiple intelligences and autonomous learning through the individual forms of learning recognition and cognitive processes stimulation that ...

    • Transformation of a school into cooperative school: history of an intercultural project. 

      García López, Rafaela; Martínez Usarralde, María Jesús (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      This article revises the creation process and main elements that are set in order to transform a particular educational center into an educative centre with a cooperative project. This center belongs to the city of Valencia (Spain), with a significant high index of immigrant students. Presenting the main virtues and obstacles founded in its process, at the same time that helps to reflex and to conclude with future ...

    • New interdisciplinary understandings of emotions in the light of the XXI Century. 

      Lasso Cárdenas, Edilberto (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists and biologists have recently been dealing with the study of emotions, unraveling. Although, they are firmly established on different edges, all without exception severely criticize the position of those who, based in a traditional conception, still see emotions as blind forces that disturb the reason. These authors, however, inquire from their own research linking cognitive ...

    • Quality criteria for instructional design of an online course 

      Corredor Gómez, Nora Astrid (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      This study aims to assess the quality criteria in designing virtualcourses. Is focus on the motivation analysis and learning styles and their relationship to selected learning resources for developing online courses. Two instruments were used for data collection, observation and interview. The results were analyzed through the grounded theory research design that allowed study categories and sub categories through open ...

    • Notes on pedagogy mediated through question from digital collaborative environments 

      Jaaman Meza, Yury Emilio (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2013-06-04)
      This study aims to assess and emphasizes the search of a meaningful learning as well as the development of critical and creative thinking in the virtual classroom by using a methodology of inquiry in a digital environment with the use of WebQuest as an innovative tool and as a pedagogical and learning alternative in the philosophy program. The main goal of this methodology is to encourage inquiry and research lead ...

    • Climate change and vulnerability: prospects for northeastern Colombia - Santanderes 

      Pinto Hernández, Jorge Enrique; Salazar de Cardona, Melva (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2014-06-04)
      According to the United Nations, the climate change supposes adverse effects referred to changes in the physical environment or in the biota with harmful significant consequences in the composition, the capacity of recovery or the productivity of the ecosystems natural or subject to arrangement, or in the functioning of the socioeconomic systems, or in the health and the human well-being. It is studied here, which are ...

    • State of knowledge that have the technological IES of Barranquilla and Cartagena on their groups of interest 

      Lechuga Cardozo, Jorge Isaac; Rodríguez Wong, Myriam; GiovAlarcón Guerrero, Cesar Giovanny (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2014-06-04)
      This article shows a study of the relationship that has IES from Barranquilla and Cartagena, with the stakeholders of his organization at 2013, identifying as problem, the loss of competitiveness of the companies that don’t have idea of organizational strategic direction to their stakeholders. With the mobjective in to realize suggestions that improve the business models or organizational perspectives about the ...

    • Comparison of psychological risk factors in teenagers of Bucarmanga and it's metropolitan area according sex genre 

      Uribe Rodríguez, Ana Fernanda; Carreño Arango, Diana Lyzeth; Espinosa Jurado, Milena; Sastoque Jerez, Luz Elizabeth (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2014-06-04)
      In Colombia, each year there are increasing numbers in new cases of HIV/AIDS and the researches are showing their interest in this issue. Santander, has Little information about statistics and risk population group, therefore, the present research made important contribution about knowledge, attitudes and perception of susceptibility and selfefficacy in teenagers of Bucaramanga and metropolitan area. The findings show ...

    • Rethinking education in the modern human formation 

      García Serrano, Saúl Ernesto (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2014-06-04)
      Education in university life should have the space and time to acquire wisdom and humanize work, the sciences, professions, and culture. This is the paradigm of the universities, from the media age.If this task is not accomplished, the educators and the instructors can fall into the trap of being "education monsters" but without virtue, without the ability to contemplate and have a clear sense of life.Modern higher ...

    • Review the processes of understanding and production of academic texts in the field of higher education in the classroom and virtual enviroment 

      Acevedo, Sandra; Martínez, Lizedh; Román, Ivonne (Sello Editorial UNAD, 2014-06-04)
      This article is a product of an investigation about some researchingsabout the processes of reading comprehension and production oftexts in high education to a national and international level. Thefounded articles detach some searching experiences that start as apilot trials and practices obtained by mean of short courses aboutreading comprehension and writing.It was possible to identify some difficulties that students ...