El cambio en la educación: viejas raíces, nuevas prácticas docentes mediadas por TIC

Abstract

The change in education is a complex challenge, it requires the participation of diverse actors, of short and long term processes to transform the way of teaching. On the road to change, we find obstacles, resistances and deep traditions. In this line of thought, the development of cooperative work using the potential of Information and Communication Technologies ( ICT ), promises to transcend the comfort zone towards an area of innovation. Insert new teaching practices through ICT in old roots, is an opportunity for higher education institutions to build knowledge and learning communities taking advantage of the pedagogical potential of the binomial teaching-research and research-teaching.

The purpose of this report is to analyze, reflect and show how teachers are the leaders who design the educational future and the preponderant role to face change. Organizational structure and culture influence the formation of leaders, but even more leaders influence the change and transformation of the organization. In this sense, a transformational change management plan is proposed, where the will, ethics, innovative mentality and social responsibility for the teaching of quality, the indispensable components for rethinking, the direction and the leadership that transcends.