INTER Group
Research in Intercultural Education
Collaboration with the Universidad de Tarapacá (Chile)
Program: AECI, PCI bilateral aid projects
Dates: 2010
Reference:
B/025438/09
Coordinator: Belén Ballesteros
OBJECTIVES
The main objectives of the
project are:
- To progress in developing an interinstitutional agreement between the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Spain) and the Universidad de Tarapacá (Chile), that will make it possible to turn the proposal for the Euro-Latin American Masters in Intercultural Education into a Joint Inter-university Degree.
- To train the teaching teams that participate in the Masters degree in the methodologies specific to distance education and, particularly, in the use of the online learning platform aLF, designed by the UNED for the offical Masters courses
METHODOLOGY AND TIMELINE
The tasks proposed for
working toward these objectives are the following:
·
Management of the agreement
between the two universities to implement the degree as an
interinstitutional degree. It will be necessary to review
the requirements that the Masters must fulfill to become
an inter-university degree, negotiate the opportune
adaptations, and establish the specific cooperation
agreement between the UNED and the Universidad de
Tarapacá.
·
Training in the
administration of the online aLF platform used to teach
the Masters degree. To achieve this, the students will be
asked to attend the in-person courses for managing and
using the platform organized by the University Institute
of Distance Education (IUED) of the UNED.
The timeline planned for
carrying out these tasks is the following:
·
January-February 2010:
review documentation about establishing cooperation
agreements and development of a joint degree.
·
March 2010: first meeting
in Madrid with the Vice-Rector of Institutional Relations
in order to create the agreement.
·
April-May 2010: adapt the
Masters.
·
June: first meeting in
Arica with the Vice-Rectorate of Development for studying
and signing the cooperation agreement in Arica.
·
Juy 2010: Sign agreement at
the UNED.
·
September 2010: second
meeting in Madrid. Attendance at the in-person course
given by the IUED for training in the administration of
the online platform aLF.
·
October-November 2010:
development of the online practical exercises for managing
the platform and online training, for all the professors
participating in the Masters.