Browsing by Autor "Humberto Calderon"

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Implementation Issues of Student-Centered Learning based Engineering Education in Developing Countries Universities
(2018) Guillermo Sahonero-Alvarez; Humberto Calderon
Student-Centered Learning is one of the most popular and promising instruction approaches as it is supposed to enhance the active role of students on Engineering Education. Although there are multiple advantages of employing it, there are also multiple implementation issues that have been identified by previous works. Unfortunately, the focus of those works was mostly referring to developed countries context. However, due to differences technological and teaching support resources, as curricula structure, individual academic regulations and even culture, some dissimilarities are induced on the actual issues in developing countries. In this work, we explore the corresponding matters of Student-Centered Learning over Engineering Education in the context of a fraction of developing countries. An analysis of issues' similarities and differences suggests that, despite the common difficulties, developing countries may be more distant from real SCL implementation as they seem to have more complex problems than developed economies.
Postgraduate Schools in Developing Countries
(2018) Humberto Calderon; Milenka Balboa; Sthephan Caba
The increasing gap between developed and developing countries can be effectively addressed by coordinated north-south cooperation only. The development pace is slow in countries with low budgets for science and technology investment. To tackle a lack of government support, human talent (critical mass), infrastructure, internationalization, financial resources and low designated time for research activities, a research ecosystem needs to be built using the better practices of the developed world in a participative environment, both in science/technology as well as in a partnership with the world markets. While developed countries introduce new science/technology products, the developing countries are the consumers of it and a larger leakage of low GDP resources is incurred, increasing the gap. In this work we introduce a cooperation model that sets up what is to be intended a new postgraduate school, which is based on intensive research using what we call the extended Sábato's approach. This model looks for the creation of a new development framework that, nowadays, is successfully used by developed countries. We look to create new development based on global market niches, bringing local technology companies to existence. We expect this approach to be instantiated at the Bolivian Universities with international cooperation, trying to solve our NP-Completeness issue.