The instance responds to the requirements of Law 20.903, which creates the Teaching Professional Development System, whose indication establishes carrying out diagnostic evaluations at the beginning, during and at the end of the training process, a mandatory requirement to obtain the accreditation of their careers and pedagogical programs.

One of the commitments acquired by the University of La Serena, through the Integrated Management of Pedagogies Unit (UGIP), is to support the training process of each student who enters to study a career in the pedagogical area at the university. Precisely, one of the Programs directed by the UGIP is related to leading evaluations in Initial Teacher Training and, in accordance with the demands of Law 20.903, establishing the respective leveling and support mechanisms.

This is how the Program of Leveling and Support for first-year students of ULS Pedagogies, currently assigned to the Student Monitoring Office (OAME) and managed by the UGIP, which is responsible for strengthening entry skills, according to the results obtained in the Evaluation Initial Diagnosis, the submission of which is a mandatory entry requirement to the career. The instance includes support in competencies both in the area of ​​Language and Mathematics, as well as in matters of teaching vocation.

In this context, the UGIP carried out a special Streaming, aimed mainly at school directors, coordinators of pedagogical careers and students participating in the Plan, who were able to learn about the importance of this action and the contents covered in the modules of Reading Comprehension Skills, Skills Mathematics and Teaching Vocation.

"This instance allows us to discuss all those conditions that the University makes available to all first-year students, to identify their prior knowledge directly related to their new learning, skills, competencies, interests, motivations and dispositions for study, and of course also in the area of ​​vocation development. The Program will not only help strengthen academic performance, but will also contribute early to the consolidation of what will be your future as a teaching professional.", expressed the director of UGIP, Dr. Sandra Barahona.

In addition, the three professionals in charge of teaching each Module participated in the space, the teachers Karen Pinilla (Reading Comprehension Skills) and Julia Garrido (Mathematical Skills), and the psychologist Carolina Monsalvez (Teaching Vocation), who had the opportunity to explain in detail the respective purposes, methodologies and learning routes.

Likewise, there was the presence of the curricular designer, Daniela Poblete, who, representing the Office of Distance Education (OED), explained the operation of the digital platform and the relevance of the use of virtual spaces as tools for the Teaching and learning process.

The modality in which the Leveling and Support Plan for ULS Pedagogies is carried out is virtually, supported by the undergraduate platform provided by the OED, asynchronously and with a duration of 7 weeks.

All questions regarding participation in the Plan should be directed to the email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Written by Daniela Ledezma, UGIP

The local initiative includes a series of audiovisual capsules that seek to answer questions about decentralization, among other current topics.

An important activity will take place this Thursday, May 20 at 17:00 p.m., where the panel composed of Dr. Alejandra Vivanco Reyes, president of the Decentralized Chile - Developed Foundation, regional chapter of Coquimbo; Dr. Architect Alejandro Orellana McBride, Director of the Department of Architecture of the University of La Serena and Mg. Carlos Varas Madrid, Director of Liaison with the Environment and Extension of the study house (DIVEULS), will carry out the regional launch of the online program “Regional Dialogues” (https://dialogosregionales.cl/), initiative supported by the ULS, through DIVEULS.

As detailed by Dr. Alejandra Vivanco, “this program was launched a few weeks ago at the national level and is made up of a series of thematic modules in audiovisual format and seeks to answer the questions that ordinary people, ordinary people, our citizens and citizens of the Coquimbo Region, have with respect to the processes that decentralization implies in daily life, in the present life, especially in the future of our communities, social organizations of workers, young people, adults and older adults, among others.”

Regarding the programming and specific content of the modules, he announced that he considers five modules: Why do we need to decentralize Chile?, “What do we need to do it well?”, “Why a regional governor?”, “Governor's Program Regional” and “New regional institutionality”.

Finally, he extended an invitation to participate in this launch of the program, which will be held on YouTube channel Linkage with the ULS Media.

“We are very happy to make available to the community of the Coquimbo Region a complete online program of modules that are free and that are focused on reflection and education, especially on the decentralization process; the Constituent process, where this weekend we elect the 255 representatives and, in particular, for the territorial development of the country,” he expressed.

People who participate in the streaming will be able to chat with the panelists through the online chat of the broadcast and view the first capsule of module 1.

Written by Matías Hernández Rojas, student in journalism practice - DIVEULS

The Access to Higher Education Program (PACE), belonging to the Office of Student Support and Monitoring (OAME) of the University of La Serena, continues its systematic work in 2021 focused on the benefit of its management and teaching community.

The PACE ULS Secondary Education Preparation Component (PEM) team carried out a new virtual event, which is part of the Skills Reinforcement Subcomponent and the implementation of the Teaching Support Plan of the twelve Educational Establishments ( EE) assigned to the measure, whose objective is to strengthen didactic strategies for the development of XNUMXst century skills.

It should be noted that last month, the survey was carried out on accompanied EE teachers and managers, in which responses were obtained from 133 participants from said communities. The importance of this instrument lies in the fact that these results were the key input for generate proposals for topics to be addressed in the teaching support plan, which considers their interests, linked to skills for the XNUMXst century through pedagogical actions and active teaching methodologies.

PEM PACE ULS Workshops

The second Teaching Workshop is part of the cycle of eight instances, which are planned to be carried out this year, which seek to facilitate collaborative work spaces between teachers, focused on teaching innovation and their pedagogical practices. Regarding this, Dr. Marcela Altamirano, PEM PACE ULS Teaching Professional, stated: “it is our desire, as a PACE PEM ULS team, that the topics, methodologies and strategies that we share with teachers can be implemented in their educational communities and in their classrooms, according to each context.”

The meeting titled: “Cooperative Learning in Virtuality”, was held through the Zoom platform and included the participation of the management and teaching communities, of the establishments that are attached to the Accompaniment Program and focused on the sample of virtual tools and strategies to apply cooperative work between students in the technological field to which teaching has been transferred.

In this activity, participants had the opportunity to interact with each other and learn about different technological tools, in order to promote cooperative learning between students so that they can develop and improve the skills necessary for distance learning.

In this regard, Verónica Salinas, Professional Technical Teacher at the El Ingenio College of Administration and Commerce, located in the city of Ovalle, stated the following: “I would like to thank PACE ULS for these instances that seek to improve the educational and technological tools that we They deliver to improve as today, we present ourselves to our students and the community in general.”

Written by PACE OAME ULS Communications.

The main focus of the initiative is to raise awareness among the university community about the value of good treatment in the virtual environments in which we are operating.

The University of La Serena, through the General Directorate of Student Affairs and in collaborative work with the Directorate of Teaching, the Center for Attention to Complaints and Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination and the Directorate of Strategic Communication, launched the campaign "Let's Connect with Good Treatment", framed within the Program for the Promotion of Good University Treatment sustained since 2009 by the house of higher education.

The content of this campaign is disseminated through the web, mailings and institutional social networks, and is aimed at the entire university community, with special emphasis on students, and seeks to contribute to peaceful social coexistence, thematize the impact of our treatment on the Others, promote the practice of positive social behaviors and install the values ​​of respect, tolerance, empathy and acceptance in our conversations. 

It should be noted that, according to specialists, situations of mistreatment, abuse and disrespect in virtual environments produce psychological effects that add to the emotional discomfort associated with confinement and the pandemic, which requires us to develop preventive and promotional actions such as the current Buen Trato campaign, an initiative that reminds us that behind the screens we are all people.

For more information, visit: http://dgae.userena.cl/buen-trato.html 

Written by Carlos Carvajal, DGAE

The program chosen for this III Chamber Music Concert invites you to get excited and enjoy one of the most influential British bands of the '60s.

The tickets to the United Kingdom. A trip to the corners of Liverpool, the birthplace of The Beatles, is being prepared by the La Serena University Symphony Orchestra for this month of May, within the framework of its III Chamber Music Concert in 2021. The presentation in an intimate format and that will be broadcast remotely, promises to excite and revive some of the most iconic pieces of one of the most famous and recognized bands in the world.

In the second chapter of the Despierta ConCiencia Web Series, the ULS academic and researcher, Dr. Luis Silva, details the research that responds to the generation of efficient practices in data centers.

The global data center industry continues its rapid growth, and Chile is no exception to this, generating an energy and water impact that unfortunately exacerbates the effects of climate change on natural resources.

In this regard, the academic from the VIPULS Multidisciplinary Institute, Dr. Luis Silva Llanca, detailed, in the second chapter of the Despierta ConCiencia Web Series, his research that responds to the generation of efficient practices in data centers, specifically, reduction of greenhouse gases and reduction of the water impact.

The electronic components of Data Centers, mainly CPUs, require maintaining a temperature that ensures their efficient operation. “If these systems heat up, their performance is affected and as a consequence it affects all of us who use the data, for example, the internet could go down. And a worrying fact is that the estimates of cooling water used by typical data centers are on the order of billions of liters per year, which could have a significant impact in arid or semi-arid areas such as the Coquimbo Region," the Dr. Silva.

The common practice of cooling a Data Center is in two ways. The most common of them is air cooling where cold air circulates in the server room, which is sucked into the servers to remove heat from the electronics. Another way, which is becoming a trend, is water cooling, which consists of bringing cold liquid directly to the interior of the servers, which is distributed in multiple microchannel heat exchangers to remove heat from the electronics.

Dr. Silva, who is also Director of the Doctorate in Energy, Water and Environment at the ULS, explained the operation proposed by the research to optimize the cooling system. “Our team performed dynamic modeling to evaluate two different strategies: upper downflow (ODF) and upper upflow (OUF). Specifically, a complete analysis of fluid dynamics, heat transfer and thermodynamics was done to model the thermal performance of the system under stable and transient conditions.”

The team solved a system of differential equations using the software MATLABTM 2017a, and ANSYS-FluentTM 18, also generating a three-dimensional simulation of fluid dynamics and the heat transfer process that takes place within the air side (hallway + room). ). “As the main conclusion of this work, our team, through an analysis of the second law of Thermodynamics, was able to demonstrate that the proposed cooling method is more efficient than the conventional method in Data Center cooling,” said the academic.

In 2030, technological communications, such as computers, social networks and telephones, will represent, in the worst scenario, 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks to its climatic variety, Chile has great potential for efficient cooling of data centers if meteorological conditions were used in favor of energy savings, which would reduce the water impact and carbon footprint of these systems.

You can review the second chapter of the Despierta ConCiencia Web Series, on the ULS Research and Postgraduate YouTube channel: 

Written by Sergio Muñoz, Office of Dissemination and Dissemination of Sciences and Technology