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Nowadays, many universities are employing metrics that are used by other countries as the focus moves towards academic management. A shared vision and collaboration is required to identify success cases. Leaders at senior and middle management need to be guided by a road map to get a clear vision, a list of different strategies and successful outcomes. Consequently, this article proposes an academic management strategy to guarantee student-centred education. This strategy has an emphasis on hierarchical process in layers, in order to optimise and achieve efficiency, reliability and resilience. In this paper, the “what”, “ how” and “where” are taken into account in order to respond to academic and administrative adjustments which are necessary to reduce the risk of investment in training and formation of human capital, which warns about the need to acquire knowledge, especially from countries with scientific expertise. It is also shown the indicators that motivate the effort based on the merit that human capital produces. A methodology of flipped learning or blended learning is applied to presume a human capital that is able to break down barriers, such as: English as a universal language. A bibliometric analysis has been based over 2000 scientific articles from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. So It was possible to identify countries, universities and researchers specifically for each area of knowledge based on the results of this analysis. Besides, university careers can even be validated according to the development and scientific interest that is presented by the bibliometric analysis, which could be compared with studies based on economics and wealth from sources such as Forbes.

Teacher education can benefit directly from experiences in non-formal settings.This article presents a research study with elementary teachers who were teaching in public schools in the state of Nuevo León, México, and participated in a STEM Continuous Professional Development (CPD) workshop. The workshop provided a platform for teachers to interact with scientists and disseminators of science, allowing the appropriation of scientific knowledge applied to everyday activities and settings. Participants improved the quality of their teaching practices in classrooms and gained a new understanding of STEM subjects, enabling them to promote inspiring learning experiences with their students, where dialogue, experimentation and elucidation became an important part of their lessons. The study was carried out using ethnographic tools for analysing recorded videos, 15 sets of field notes, and 49 questionnaires. The sequential analysis of talk and gestures in their participation in the CPD workshop demonstrated high levels of involvement, creativity, and collaborative solution of STEM problems.

In this article, we discuss the dynamic digital software SimCalc MathWorlds and its potential to promote dialogue in the first calculus course for engineering students at Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. Sixty students participated in a pedagogical sequence of tasks that had been designed to help them appropriate the relations between a function and its derivative. In the classroom, the software provided a visual scenario supporting the various tasks. The simulation of cartoon motion over a straight line was included during the interaction. Corresponding graphs of position and velocity gave meaning to the function and its derivative. Active and exploratory visual perception allowed the interpretation of mathematical relations being sought as affordances provided by the software. Co-action between students and mathematical knowledge through software use promoted dialogue in order to identify those relations as invariants. A qualitative method, predominantly ethnographic, was applied during the 2 weeks of the classroom experience. The results revealed the students' appropriation of the relations by means of mathematical language. With this experience, we propose the term 'dialogic ecosystem' as a way to emphasize the design and performance of the pedagogical sequence, where the teacher, students and software cohabit in an environment resulting in dialogue as an important component for the acquisition of mathematical knowledge.