VIRTUAL: Applying Education
Abstract
World complexity demands professional profiles capable of operating on a global level. Educational methodologies point to teaching-learning strategies linked to Information and Communication Technologies. As neuroscience advances, brain processes capable of allowing a greater apprehension of knowledge are revealed. Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is a methodology committed to training within the professional area linked to interculturality as an alternative to the challenging goal of innovating in teaching and learning. The present investigation exposes the methodologies applied in a virtual exercise that links students and teachers from Ecuador and Peru, interconnecting subjects of graphic design and product design. The objective of the link is to design web pages using academic and intercultural tools in six case studies of small businesses from both Latin American countries. Additionally, an analysis of the importance of applying academic exercises that understand the functioning of the brain as an organ that is nourished by experimentation, the feeling of well-being and exchange. In conclusion, different methodologies can work in synergy to achieve reflection through the realization of interdisciplinary exercises that can be inserted with low costs and extensive contributions when carried out virtually. This methodological approach type contributes to the evolution of education from participation, bonding and interculturality.
Associate professor in the specialty of Graphic Design at the Department of Art and Design of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Perú (PUCP). Co-author of the Guide of Art and Design Research. Master’s degree on Social Management with mention in Management of Development Programs and Projects (PUCP).
Designer graduated from PUCE Quito. Masters in Innovation and Product Project Development by Universidad de Leon, Spain. Trained in teaching, internationalization, and participatory design. Participated as designer in various projects in order to rescue and make visible Ecuadorian identity. Has exhibited and sold her products nationally and internationally, in stores, galleries and design halls. Speaker about her research process in seminars of Design in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Ecuador. Founding member and ex-secretary of the Chamber of Design in Ecuador. University professor, including PUCE since 2009.