The 2019 Higher Education Teaching Congress was held with great participation of teachers and researchers

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In its first version, this meeting aims to become an academic space where research and experiences linked to teaching in higher education are presented and debated.

In order to develop various initiatives that strengthen the development of research in higher education, the University of La Serena, through its Academic and Research and Postgraduate vice-chancellors, held the First Congress of Teaching in Higher Education “Challenges of the research-undergraduate teaching relationship”, which seeks to position itself as a space where more than one hundred academics and researchers can present and debate work experiences linked to teaching in higher education.

code 2The activity, which is added to the two academic writing courses held during 2019, was held on December 5 and 6 and had the participation of more than a hundred representatives from different universities in the region and the country. .

“We were surprised by the large number of works we received, the reception that this event has had from people has been quite positive and in light of this we hope to continue working on the development of this congress, strengthening what has already been done this year” , indicated the Vice-Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies and president of the CODES organizing committee, Dr. Eduardo Notte, regarding the good reception that the first version of this event has had.

One of the speakers at CODES 2019 was the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile, Dr. Oscar Jerez, who gave a conference on the systematic analysis of teaching and its effects on learning of the students.code 3

“The work carried out by the University of La Serena is important, since being a state university, it must be an engine for the development of instances focused on teaching, and with spaces such as this Higher Education Teaching Congress, among others, ULS has managed to stand out within this area at the national level,” said Dr. Jerez.

The topics addressed during this version were: interdisciplinarity in training, evaluation systems and monitoring of learning processes, incorporation of ICT in the training process, curricular innovation and inclusion.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom