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Latin American universities are debating the elevation of educational quality and the challenges faced by the teacher in the present century. The Peruvian reality does not escape this imprint and the National University of San Agustín (UNSA) of Arequipa is immersed in a process of curricular transit and of improvement of the teaching-educational process. The applications of a group of theoretical and empirical methods, from the research-action-participatory methodology, offer the results that are presented in the article. Which depart from the diagnosis carried out to an institution and directs the research that is proposed as objective: to offer some characteristics of the university professors of the UNSA, from the current situation that. They present, for the strengthening of their professional profile on the basis of the current social demands. The identification of the main characteristics of the university teacher that requires the 21ST century and its impact on the change that is implemented in the UNSA is considered a new and necessary contribution to the impact of the preparation of teachers to bring the demands of society and the training of future professionals.

Currently Colombia has many difficulties in aspects of primary needs such as health and education. For example, high levels of school dropout have been found associated with armed conflicts and the lack of economic resources. Another of the concerns that haunt the education system are the low results in national tests such as Saber and Saber Pro and international tests such as the PISA test, where official documents show no improvement. These and other problems are daily traversed in the classroom and carried by teachers and parents, who seek to propose solutions for students who already feel discouraged and without expectations of a better future. And it is the teacher who, based on new methodologies, strategies and resources, seeks that young people get involved in their learning process in a more dynamic and creative way, where active methodologies and the use of computer teaching resources can achieve difference. This article presents some methodologies such as the research seminar, learning by projects, among others, which are applied daily in the Pascual Bravo Institute and have improved the teaching-learning process.

The environment, its care and conservation are a priority from the university education. In that sense, the process of teaching and learning must be active and aligned with the future field of work in order to the student plays a leading role. The optional subject “Management of Environmental Information” is designed to be taught in undergraduate and graduate programs with an integrated approach that considers the link between theory and practice, the concept of learning by doing and the application of the information and communication´s technologies to contribute to sustainable development. The present work analyzes the elements to be taken into account in its design and application. It were carried out interviews, questionnaires, documentation review and it was used didactic resources as e-learning. The analysis carried out allowed to diagnose the state of the management of environmental information and to identify with which sustainable development objectives the organization was related to, as well as the aspects to be considered in order to justify its accomplishment. The application of the subject program contributed to documenting the evidences of the fulfillment of several of the indicators of the Agenda 2030 in the organizations and strengthened the link University - Company.

A review of experiences is carried out as a result of the participation of the Cuban faculty in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Education created by the University of El Salvador, specifically by one of its dependencies, the Multidisciplinary Faculty of the West. The question arises as to how this joint work between Cuba and El Salvador can affect the quality indexes of Salvadoran higher education and the academic strengthening of the only state university in that country. Based on an in situ observation of the particularities of the University of El Salvador, as well as interviews with doctoral students, the work concludes that the program opens a set of possibilities for academic development through educational research and the improvement of teaching competencies for higher education.

Gamification applied in learning contexts is a current trend that has come along with the popularization of videogames and the process of integration of information and communication technologies to the teaching-learning process. It is characterized by the use of game elements and its main goal is to impact on the student’s motivation for study and participation in educational activities. Although this phenomenon is currently being studied and developed and there are some reports of successful applications, it does not lack controversy due tothe possible negative effects on student’s motivation that a flawed implementation might have.  The objective of this article is to present some of the existing definitions for gamification, to study the main characteristics of its currents applications, and to analyze the critics to this trend coming from game design and motivational psychology.

Estimados lectoresDel 26 al 30 de noviembre de 2018 se celebró el IV Congreso Internacional de Educación en Ingeniería y Arquitectura (CIEIA 2018), en el marco de la XIX Convención Científica de la Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría....

In our country the University Reformation of 1962 sat down the rules for the transformations in university teaching, contributing the concept of continuous improvement of the study plans with the purpose of satisfying the demands of the socioeconomic development in every moment and valuing the international tendencies that were pertinent in the formation of our professionals. Since 1977 four generations of study plans have been applied so far, maintaining the pattern of modern, humanist, universalized, scientific, technological, innovative and deeply committed university with our socialist model.  At the present time, the superior Cuban education is immerse in the design and implementation of a new generation of study plans, denominated Plans of Study E, where the formation of professionals of wide profile is prioritized, preparations to assume a continuous formation with bigger protagonist and autonomy during the university studies. In this new generation of study plans, the curricular design of the Mathematical Superior discipline for the engineering careers has been a process of improvement with substantial modifications that impose to the cloister university challenges in the teaching of this science in a new context. The present work shop is the result of the professional expertise and of the analysis of the authors, in which one meditates about the particularities of the teaching of the topic lineal "Applications and Diagonalyzation" in the new study plans E for the engineering careers and they occur proposals with a view to achieving a better use and a bigger motivation of the students.

The development of science and technology has gained momentum in the twenty-first century in all fields. In the educational context, the emergence of language teaching and learning laboratories has meant a step forward. Their appropriate usage and management enhances the knowledge, habitsand skills acquisition in the foreign languages. The objective is describes the process of improvement of the postgraduate course for Language Teachers in the management of the NewClass laboratory in the School of Dentistry of Havana. A descriptive study with theoretical methods of analysis andsynthesis of bibliographic and documentary reviews was conducted. The study comprised 15 teachers. A survey was carried out to know the opinions of the postgraduate students attending the course related to the teaching activities and their necessities in relation to the management of the laborartory.

Muchas veces, la historia de la arquitectura se concibe en la forma de una mera sucesión cronológica de acontecimientos y obras referentes, por lo que su enseñanza resulta poco atractiva a estudiantes e incluso docentes, quienes suelen ver poca o ninguna utilidad en dedicarle horas de esfuerzo a su análisis. Se trata, sin duda, de un problema bastante extendido y recurrente.

Historiadora. Presidenta del Comité Científico Internacional del Icomos sobre Fortificaciones y Patrimonio Cultura. Miembro del Grupo de Trabajo del Icomos para Cambio Climático. Sirve como consultora y experta en Fortificaciones del Caribe para la Unesco, Icomos e Icofort. Coordinadora y coautora de la Carta de Icofort sobre fortificaciones y patrimonio relacionado. Guía para la protección, conservación e interpretación.