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Change Management Program and Agile Methodologies

Educational authorities

Strategic Seminars

Certified teachers

The context in which this Program is linked to the urgency of giving pedagogical continuity and developing the higher education service, from the crisis originated by COVID-19 that brought to the forefront the will to develop virtual education models and that after the return to face-to-face contexts, evidenced the need to include in the National University of Education Enrique Guzmán y Valle (UNE) the offer of blended programs where face-to-face and virtuality are combined, which is adjusted to the needs of students and the reality of the current university educational offer.

UNESCO IESALC’s training and technical assistance proposal is structured around core training in agile methodologies and change management, aimed at promoting and developing a culture of innovation and quality for virtualization directed at university authorities, academic authorities and teachers at UNE. The training for each of these groups includes a series of core topics and then a smart route with specific content for each of the groups. The program is completed with the development of a final application project.

General objectives

Strengthen capacities for the good performance of authorities and teachers in soft skills, agility and change management that allow reinforcing the demands of the UNE Educational Project.
To understand change management as a constant and how agile methodologies are the frame of reference to manage institutional projects in changing contexts.
Analyze from Design thinking needs and strengths and weaknesses of the institution.
Use design tools as an instrument for the revision of the institutional orientation, consistent with the educational model and the strategic plan.
Identify areas of teaching development through innovation.

Phases

Common trunk trainning

The three groups to which this program is addressed have a core training in agile methodologies and change management aimed at promoting and developing a culture of innovation within the institution at all levels. Each of the core training modules are approached in an exceptional way by experts and oriented to each of the groups.

Module 1. Change Management and Agile Methodologies.
Module 2. New ways of working.
Module 3. Agile project management.
Module 4. Introduction to design thinking.
Module 5. User-Centered Design Tools.
Module 6. User Experience Tracking Tools.

Intelligent route

Each of the groups attended was able to access specialized seminars according to the needs of each group:

For the group of university authorities, the seminars addressed the following topics:

Teaching development.
Teaching innovation: virtual and blended learning.
Diversity and inclusion.
Research and internationalization.
Social responsibility and inclusion.
Liaison and sustainability.

The following topics were addressed by the academic authorities:

Teaching development.
Teaching innovation: virtuality and blended learning.
Flipped learning en la educación superior.
Creation of virtual and blended learning programs.
Competency-based learning and assessment by rubrics and portfolio: evaluation of results.
Research and internationalization.

For the teaching staff the seminars addressed the following topics:

Active learning and ICT integration.
Competency-based training and learning.
Flipped learning en la educación superior.
Creation of blended and virtual programs.
Competency-based learning and assessment by rubrics and portfolio: evaluation of results.
Design of digital resources to gamify your classroom in virtual or blended learning environments.
Active participation and virtual and blended learning communities.
Teaching leadership strategies to improve learning and classroom climate.

Practical Activity

The program is accompanied by practical activities for each of the groups. We propose the following topics for the final project.

University authorities: vision of the University facing the challenges of virtualization and educational innovation.

Academic authorities: how to integrate virtuality and blended learning in quality teaching programs.

Teachers: adaptation of a syllabus to a blended or virtual mode and creation of a repository of available virtual resources.

Slide

“This program has helped me a lot, it has clarified many doubts and has taught us how we should work not only in the part of the dictation of the class, but in programming, in the design of a blended learning syllabus and in the use of the platform and the creation of digital resources that enhance student learning.”

Marco Antonio Inga
Enrique Guzmán y Valle National University of Education

Slide

“My daily life at the institution is full of challenges, joys and learning. Teaching practice is very demanding, so the program has been an engine of motivation and a box of new ideas to create new strategies that I can apply in the teaching process with my students and add to the educational improvement of my country.”

River Serna
Enrique Guzmán y Valle National University of Education

Slide

“Participating in this training has been of great help since it provided us with technical advice, and they nios allowed us to strengthen the culture of change in our faculty. In addition, everything we learned allowed us to apply the transformation processes in management with agile methodologies as techniques for the development of the diagnosis and the annual strategic plan of the faculty.”

Ronald Guadalupe
Enrique Guzmán y Valle National University of Education

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