CHALLENGES OF EDUCATION IN LINE FOR CHALLENGES TO EDUCATION BIBLIOTECÓLOGOS-DOCENTES/ONLINE-TEACHERS LIBRARIANS

This article tries to reflect about skills that librarian or information specialists should develop to design an online course. Define distance education, online education, and collaborative learning. Establish the importance of community sense. Describe the process to design online courses. Finally, compare the Mexican Librarianship and Information Sciences Schools graduate profiles with the skills required to design online courses.

El articulador: aprendizaje basado en integraciones (ABI)

Se analiza la emergencia del concepto de “articulador” dentro de la estrategia pedagógica del aprendizaje basado en problemas (ABP). A través de esta los miembros de un grupo de trabajo recuperan información que les permite examinar un problema desde distintos puntos de vista. Mediante la experiencia de trabajo entre profesores, entre estudiantes y entre ambos, el articulador funciona como eje de integración de conocimientos que responden a aspectos particulares del problema, que son definidos y reflexionados por el grupo. Abstract The article of analyzes the emergence of the concept ≪articulator≫ in the pedagogical strategy of problem-based learning (ABP). Through this strategy the members of a working group recover information that allows them to examine a problem from different points of view. Through the experience of work between professors, between students and between them, the articulator works like axis of integration of knowledge that respond to particular aspects of the problem, which are defined and reflected by the group.

Distance Education in the Professionalization of People with Disability and Prison Inmates

This paper illustrates the impact of the Universidad Estatal a Distancia  (UNED, by its Spanish acronym) in supporting and professionalizing the vulnerable groups of the Costa Rican society, including prison inmates, persons with physical disability, individuals from remote areas, among others.  This study attempts to answer this type of questions: What kind of support has been provided to these sectors?  What are the challenges faced by distance education universities to succeed?  How does UNED have solved these challenges?  What is the impact of the Universidad Estatal a Distancia on the Costa Rican society for the professionalization of its population?  Documentation and statistics have been used in the study; in addition, two people who graduated from UNED were selected to illustrate the type of cases the University serves.(1) Translator’s note: It refers to the “Costa Rican Distance Education State University”.