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EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING OF THE METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH IN HIGHER UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: THE CASE OF THE AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BAJA CALIFORNIA
Autonomous University of Baja California (MEXICO)
About this paper:
Appears in: EDULEARN12 Proceedings
Publication year: 2012
Page: 4132 (abstract only)
ISBN: 978-84-695-3491-5
ISSN: 2340-1117
Conference name: 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 2-4 July, 2012
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
The commitment of the University is to achieve that their students are critical and commit to their social reality, part of their academic training should be established as a priority research.
In Mexico, the demand for teachers of a higher education for research development is extremely high. It is also an excellent opportunity to contribute new knowledge and thereby enrich the teaching-learning process.

The challenge of the university is to train students and to teach them skills and attitudes that will lead to generate new knowledge. To make them understand reality and to take advantage of the incorporation of “information and communication technologies” (ICT) in the learning process, and the competitive advantages of globalization.
The objective of this paper is to present the experience of the collaborative work of teachers of investigation methodology and related subjects of different schools and colleges of the UABC and its contribution to changes in from and fund in the curses offered and the work between professors.
The process began in the year 2000 with five teachers, setting up a network of services of research methodology or TEMSEL like today´s network is known, a network of cooperation and exchange programs, in 2004 the network had thirty members and just one database.
Curricula and teaching materials were compiled, and managed to muster some equipment and software applications, all with the intention of supporting the teaching practice of teachers enrolled in the network.
The integration of technology is to learn, through virtual platforms for interaction and administration of courses, because it creates a "hybrid" strategy, which combines the presence of the student in the classroom and its interaction with the tutor, advisors and others students
In 2006 the laboratory turned into a (CEA) ´´An open educational center'' the interest is not only for an investigation methodology, but also for all the major subjects using the administration system of blackboard curses.
The interest for a better and more meaningful (teaching experience) was what gave birth this innovative effort. The learning process of philosophy, the practice, methods and investigation techniques don’t have the exclusive finality to form them as investigators, but to give them concepts and tools, that might be the key in the strategy of becoming professional for change and permanent actualization.
Keywords:
Research methodology, process, higher education, information and communication technologies.