Analytic vision of foresight planning in venezuelan public universities
This work sought to analyze the scope of foresight planning in managing Venezuelan public universities (VPU) within the context of the Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA), Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda (UNEFM), and Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira (UNET) information society. This was a documentary study with a bibliographic design, supported on the analytic method; the intentional simple was aimed at three VPUs with foresight plans. The techniques to gather information included bibliographic review, critical reading, and content analysis, among others. Through the results, it was concluded that the VPUs under study coincide in the key areas toward where their foresight plans are aimed: teaching, research, and outreach. Additionally, one of the challenges for them from the information society is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) both in academic and administrative issues. Regarding this, foresight planning is viable in university management. Its reach is broad, considering the present to make future scenarios in agreement with the key areas. It was recommended to identify strategic and emergent aspects at the universities, specifically the domain of corporate information/knowledge and organizational management/strategic level within the foresight framework.
Tendencias actuales e innovaciones en la educación superior a distancia. Potencialidad y restricciones en Latinoamérica
Los dos temas centrales de este documento se refieren a : (1) La impostergable necesidad de reestructurar a las universidades actuales, porque aun aquellas que han demostrado una gran calidad y elevada produccion cientifica, necesitan de nuevas estructuras y enfoques ,pura poder responder a un conjunto de poderosas nuevas fuerzas mundiales, tipicas de la epoca actual, donde el incesante cambio y la acelerada globalizacion , construyen escenarios substancialmente diferentes a los del pasado. (2) El segundo tema central se refiere a las causas y condiciones que explican el surgimiento e impetuoso desarrollo de la educacion a distancia, como modalidad educativa que se ha extendido a muchos paises del mundo actual, tanto desarrollados como sub-desarrollados. Asi mismo, se definen las varias generaciones de esta modalidad educativa hasta llegar a la tercera, donde se percibe como la educacion a distancia se conjuga cada vez mas con el aprendizaje virtual y las universidades virtuales, que representan la respuesta mas creativa para la masificacion e individualizacion de la educacion contemporanea, apoyada funcionalmente con las nuevas tecnologias informaticas y telematicas
Good elementary education
Abstract The aim of this study is to identify good elementary education standards that would contribute to the elimination of inequalities in the implementations regarding the utilization -and making it utilized- of the right to elemetary education. Being a descriptive one, this study attempted to identify the definitions and explanations of the right to education in universal documents by a review of literature. The study then attempted to explain the drawbacks concerning the protection and the utilization of the right to education. The study proposes some standards such as accessibility, content, operation so as to eliminate the obstacles hindering the utilization of the right to elementary education.