Learning environments affect thought development
Santo Domingo. The conditions and climate created for the learning of all those involved are part of a process of transformation, recreation, adaptation and setting of the environment in which an individual develops.
This was stated by Carlos Marcelo García, professor at the University of Seville, and Teresita González Novo, from Panama, during the International Seminar on Learning Environments: Innovation Scenario for Higher Education that took place on Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC).
The rector of INTEC, Rolando M. Guzmán, said that the seminar is added to a series of refresher meetings and improvement proposals for teachers and counselors that the university has made this month for the levels of basic, media and higher education. "It is a sign of the effervescence and concern that is experienced in the university for the quality of education and the impact that this in turn has on the quality of life of Dominicans," he said at the opening of the event, at the who was present Víctor Hugo Del Cancer, representing the Ministry of Higher Education Science and Technology (MESCyT).
The learning environments take into account both physical and virtual spaces, providing the necessary stimuli in the development of thought.
More than 60 teachers participated in the seminar, the third organized by the INTEC through the Dean's Office Management Division as a space for updating and discussing trends and innovations for teachers.
The act was headed by the rector along with Del Cancer and Rocío Hernández, dean of the Teaching Management Division, as well as by Altagracia López, from the Center for Innovation in Higher Education (CINNES-INTEC), who introduced the international speakers.
Participants included academics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMMA), the Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe), the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), the University of the Caribbean (Unicaribe), the Universidad del Domínico-Americano (UNICDA), teachers from the Robert Reid Cabral Hospital, the National Statistical Office (ONE), the Don Bosco School and the Salomé Ureña Training Institute (INFODOSO).
Carlos Marcelo García, Professor of the Department of Didactics of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Seville, who also heads the PAIDI research, innovation, development, assessment and advisory group (IDEA) was an international speaker. Also Teresita González Novo, General Manager of Integral Training Center based in Panama, who is a specialist in e-learning learning environments.
The seminar was held in the Julio Ravelo Room of the university, on 29 and 30 days of the month of November of 2011.