A major challenge for the knowledge society is to narrow the education gap, hence the need for strategies that foster innovation and improvement in education. Thus, with the support of technology and the Internet, virtual academic communities have emerged in order to exchange and disseminate innovative educational practices. The objective of the study presented in this article was to analyse the state of open educational practices in the institutions forming part of the Regional Open Latin American Community for Social and Educational Research (CLARISE) in order to diagnose their level of positioning, strategies, implementation, promotion and dissemination. The main research question was: How do open educational practices (OEPs) and technology appropriation develop in teachers belonging to a virtual academic network? In order to answer this question, a case study research methodology was applied, using interviews, participant observation, document analysis and questionnaires as the data collection instruments. The findings indicate that an exchange network fosters open content production and OEP implementation by participating teachers and institutions, promotes the generation and dissemination of materials such as open e-books and scientific journals, encourages members to use open educational resources (OERs), facilitates open content sharing and promotes the development of OEPs, thus enabling teachers to learn how to properly communicate the licensing of their work. While the CLARISE network shares and disseminates cultural production all over the world, the participating institutions are placed in an early and developing state with regard to OEPs because such practices have yet to be institutionally incorporated into their educational models. The community's members have only reached a second level of technology appropriation as no repurposing of OERs is done by them. Keywords technology appropriation, open educational practices, open educational resources, virtual academic networks, communities of practice, CLARISE network 6 http://rusc.uoc.edu Open educational practices and technology appropriation... CC CC María del Carmen Betancourt, Rosario Celaya and María Soledad Ramírez 2014 by FUOC
Esta investigación analiza los elementos de diseño de ocho autoestudios multimedia (AM) que ayudaron a desarrollar dos competencias digitales de Alfabetización Informativa (AI) durante el primer seminario MOOC en Latinoamérica. El análisis se realizó desde dos perspectivas: principios de la Teoría Cognitiva del Aprendizaje Multimedia (TCAM) y la forma de incorporar los AM al seminario. Se utilizó el método cualitativo de estudio de caso. Mediante el análisis de documentos, entrevistas y observación se estudiaron dos categorías: desarrollo de competencias y elementos de los AM. Se encontraron cuatro elementos que favorecen el desarrollo de competencias, dos relacionados con la TCAM y dos con la integración de los AM al seminario: principio de coherencia, principio de personalización, conectivismo y aprendizaje activo.
En la actualidad las instituciones educativas tienen el reto de alcanzar una formación integral del estudiante. Una constante actualización del docente con respecto a sus conocimientos pedagógicos y el uso de recursos de las TIC en los procesos formativos, son elementos que contribuyen al logro de esa meta, es por eso que se requieren propuestas de formación docente pertinentes y actualizadas. Este artículo tiene como objetivo presentar los resultados de una investigación realizada, a partir del estudio de caso de dos cursos de formación docente para el uso de recursos educativos abiertos y su relación con la apropiación tecnológica, a través de la innovación educativa basada en evidencia.
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