Competitive Advantages with the Use of ICT (Moodle) in the New Curriculum at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

• Author: Duran-Hernandez, Araceli

INTRODUCTION

Educational practices have always demanded the existence of a mediating element between the teacher and the student. Generally, this mediator has been a technology that has evolved over time. We refer to conventional mail, which was once used to establish an epistolary relationship between the teacher and the student and that over time evolved with the introduction of new technologies. These, due to cost and accessibility, have allowed us to develop distance relationship (Bates, 1995).

At the speed that the world is going, all the advances in technology have increased the challenges. In speaking of generation of knowledge, i.e. teaching-learning as a whole, the new trends and innovations in ICT and the platform Moodle have been advantageous for the Superior Degree Plans or curricula.

Information Technologies are not only forms of social communication, but also resources for the use of learning in or outside classrooms. The use of the Moodle platform is a support for teachers and helps students interact in a virtual form. The new changes in the millennium have helped transform education to self-learning and motivate students in the superior grades.

LITERATURE REVIEW

Several relevant authors in the use of technologies are: Aparici 1997 Tella 1998 Martinez de Toda 1998 Hernandez Diaz 2001 Hart y Suss 2002 Duncan & Tyner 2003 Domaille y Buckingham 2001 Since Masterman (1985) questioned the different means of teaching in schools, other authors have theorized about possible approaches to integrating new plans of study in superior degrees. It has been observed that with new incursions of technologies in and outside the classrooms and the use of the different platforms that allow them to communicate with other universities and be able to share their investigations, chats, video conferences at the precise moment that an event is taking place, learning has evolved and students are more competitive.

We analyze how technological evolution advantages complement study plans or new curricula that are evolving along with ICTs, which allow us to compete and be able to internationalize our students so they can accomplish technological innovations.

Gutierrez (1997) states that there are three important dimensions for teacher training in ICTs:

1. Knowledge and competences of ICT possibilities as didactic resources in a mixed education that includes both electronic media (online courses) and face-to-face traditional courses.

2. Potential educational knowledge of ICTs.

3. Knowledge of various contexts.

Moodle is a software that is used to support the quality and environment of virtual learning. It also helps establish modalities in a new curriculum with dynamic learning environments and objectives and activities to be carried out, such as complementary ones like research, conferences, videos related to the subjects included in study plans...