Repositorio Institucional UNAD: Recent submissions
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CAN- The future of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) 2000-2010
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)This paper evaluates the process of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) during the ten years between 2000-2010, and describes possible scenarios in 2020. It is assumed that the CAN does not have to consolidate the political status, being the crossroads of conflicting national socio-political projects. We review, from a systemic and structural background and the most significant events of the period, to identify the ... -
Identifying market niches for UNAD’s educational programs in Ecuador
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)The article discusses the importance of identifying niche markets for the educational programs of the UNAD in Ecuador, through the analysis of the evolution of trade agreements, treaties between Colombia and Ecuador in education, such as studies Ecuador potential 0student population, the economic and technological context of this country in relation to higher education.The investigation had interesting results on ... -
Editorial
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2012-06-09)En este nuevo número de la Revista de Investigaciones de la UNAD, presentamos una interesante selección de artículos producto de diversas investigaciones que contribuyen a ampliar el conocimiento en las áreas de la educación, la pedagogía y los estudios culturales desde una mirada transdiciplinar. Es así como contamos con un importante número de escritos, iniciando con el análisis de un tema fundamental para el país, ... -
Third age adult’s mental health as in Cooprosperar’s Juan Luis Londoño de la Cuesta leading program in Yopal (Casanare) municipality
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)Aging includes Agency, which is manifested in different institutions where Colombian society and Government will give aging adults support so that their realities, as the abandonment by families, are alleviated. This job arisen from the need to help the older adults community understand their attitudes, feelings, behaviors, thoughts. It intends to set clear some features on the interactional dynamics that occur between ... -
Factors safeguarding the families’ socializing function among Duitama (Boyacá) La Presentación school’s students
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)Today it is common to hear many complaints about dysfunctional families. However , few examples have positive aspects and examples of proper family life, functional and loving relationships within families, families remote from ordinary material models presented by the advertising media, models exist for their families perfectibility, families solve problems by magic.This research focused on a group of 6 families of ... -
A virtual coach to train people missing an upper limb in motor routines
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)This research project in the field of augmentative aids for disabled people has as its main objective the assessment of motor routines training in persons with traumatic amputation on the distal side by a virtual trainer controlled by myoelectric signals. This research study is important, since it prepares the individual for the use of a real prosthesis and, thus, on a cognitive level, the virtual coach can create a ... -
A conceptual framework for discussing an instructional design model for distance education at UNAD
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)This research intends to provide a conceptual framework to discuss the DI model of Instructional Design in Distance Education at the Open and Distance National University (UNAD).Initially, a literature review on research associated to instructional design during the last five years performed, all of which agree on the importance of instructional design in distance education. Secondly a documentary study was conducted ... -
An analysis of ECACEN students’ virtual performance, from the perspective of their teaching mentor’s performance as a mediator in the process
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)This research is linked to the distance learning process and the relationship between the student and the tutor, because in many parts of the world this methodology it is not truthful at all, by their style to work. However if you are honest, responsible and willingness to do, it is an entirely welcoming model. The aim is to analyze the ECACEN students’ performance face to their virtual role, from the tutor’s perspective ... -
Si se puede construir desde la escuela una mejor sociedad
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)¿Cómo transformar el aula de clase en ambientes del entorno y construir una mejor sociedad desde aquel lugar? ¿Cómo transformar este espacio para lograr un alto grado de motivación y liderazgo en los niños, potenciar el desarrollo de sus dimensiones y entrelazar el currículo con la realidad?Se ha podido constatar que los niños en la actualidad muestran un alto índice de violencia en la resolución de sus problemas, una ... -
Sobre sistema educativo y complejidad
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)Entender el concepto de sistema complejo y analizar las relaciones entre educación y sociedad, evidencia la relación entre educación, bienestar y crecimiento. La calidad de la misma implicaría desarrollar en el individuo la capacidad de responder a los desafíos de un entorno, cultural y tecnológicamente determinado, y que sea adecuada a las exigencias de un entorno cambiante -
The value of environmental actions and evidence about them in an educational contexts
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)Environmental actions and activities are terms belonging to the language of environmental education. However, it is worth pointing out the first ones have an incidence on curriculum, while environmental activities may be unrelated to curriculum.Environmental education needs not to be constrained to the conceptual précis, but it must transcend to the most intimate in people inorder to purposedfully transform the axiological ... -
Factors contributing to desertion among students in the Managerial Sciences Institute at UNAD-CEAD
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)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 ... -
Online university welfare —a strategy to strengthen UNAD’s community through the use of TIC’s
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)Online education requires the development of different welfare activities in an online campus with the use of TIC and Web 2.0’s tools. This will generate a far more comprehensive, dynamic and interesting virtual learning environment. According to this and as a final result of the present research, a structural proposal is put under UNAD’s community’s consideration, which identifies the elements, types of interaction ... -
Self-evaluation in distance education
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)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 -
Some categories in political culture and their possibilities as tools of analysis in the field of socio-political research in colombia today
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-04-14)This paper addresses the possibilities of political culture, understood not only as a topic of study, but also as an analytical approach on its own for the development of research works within the scope of political and social sciences in Colombia —specifically a micro-political approach is called into play, within which political culture emerges as a subordinated discipline within political science, as a useful tool ... -
¿How to address educational research in the basic sciences subject matter? A proposal based on mathematics and biographies
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)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 ... -
Creating micro worlds by applying the theory of games and object-oriented design
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-04-14)On the market there are various types of video games, which display varied features, such as arcade games, shooting, adventure, role playing, educational, musical and a number of other scenarios. Each video game has a purpose or challenge to be overcome with the purpose of obtaining a prize. Such programs have the unique feature of being built by levels of difficulty in which the award varies according the challenges ... -
Building skills in virtual learning environments
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)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? ... -
Citizen competences among university students
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-04-14)A research report, this paper analyses the formation on citizen competences among university students, from a sample of 252 students in Bogotá D.C., Colombia. This is made through the design of a Likert questionnaire to analyse 4 categories: participatory democracy, social responsibility, the concept of person and human rights awareness. A lack of clarity in the concepts of State, Social State of Law, democracy, and ... -
The scope of citizen formation: democracy and social responsibility
(Sello Editorial UNAD, 2011-10-16)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 ...
