Se aborda la problemática de la renovación didáctica de los docentes universitarios y las características específicas que comporta, en particular en las áreas de matemáticas y ciencias experimentales. La estrategia REUBE (Renovación de la Enseñanza Universitaria Basada en Evidencias) se basa en la recolección de evidencias puntuales sobre disfunciones observadas en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de un profesor o grupo de profesores concretos. Simultáneamente a la recolección de evidencias, y conjuntamente con el docente, se analizan y evalúan los datos recopilados a lo largo de un semestre y se propone un plan de intervención especí­fico que se implementará y evaluará en semestres sucesivos. Tras sentar las bases para la necesidad de nuevas estrategias, se describe la propuesta REUBE y se ejemplifica su aplicación inicial en cuatro ámbitos de actua­ción universitarios.

Se ha venido realizando una innovación pedagógica consistente con el constructivismo en el curso de Física para Diseño Industrial. En el artículo se presenta el aprendizaje no tradicional de física expresado en desempeños de tipo disciplinar y de transferencia a la actuación concreta de los estudiantes. Se discute la diferencia entre estos dos tipos de desempeños y cómo parece que los estudiantes mantienen una brecha importante entre ellos a pesar de las acciones pedagógicas realizadas y cómo esto influye en sus niveles de aprendizaje. Finalmente se plantean nuevas acciones por desarrollar y algunas investigaciones que de ello se desprenden.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify how pedagogical mentoring contributed to the transformation of teachers’ pedagogical practices and to the consolidation of a team of autonomous leaders in a Colombian regional university, within the framework of a curricular reform. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a qualitative research under the methodology of experience systematization. In this methodology, the participants and researchers analyze experiences and generate knowledge about why processes are developed in a particular way. This requires organizing, reconstructing and interpreting facts and experiences. In education, the main actors (teachers) research their own pedagogical practice, developing critical thinking and generating curricular and pedagogical knowledge. Findings Results show that pedagogical mentoring was effective in achieving the proposed objectives by means of learning conversations. The entire process addressed the curriculum in all its complexity, encouraged reflection about the teachers’ pedagogical practice and empowered them as designers, implementers and evaluators of the curriculum. Research limitations/implications Curricular reforms are complex educational phenomena. In this study, the authors limited the analysis to understanding how to generate a new community of practice with teachers to implement curricular changes in all their complexity. Other actors such as principals or students were not included in the process. Originality/value The systematization of this experience shows that pedagogical mentoring is a successful strategy to develop a curricular reform in a participative manner. In addition, it provides elements – from both pedagogical practice and theory – to foster communities of reflexive teachers who are ultimately the actual designers and implementers of curricula that can tackle the challenges of education for the twenty-first century.

In this paper, the velocity and acceleration of four water rockets is determined, using the least squares method and the Euler’s method. The position and time data are obtained from the analysis of slow-motion videos of the launch of the rockets, processed with the video analyzer software “Tracker”. This experiment is proposed as a pedagogical tool for the exploration by students of high school and first semester of sciencie and engineering of basic concepts of kinematics and dynamics in systems with variable mass and acceleration.