Las complejidades del cambio en la enseñanza: uso de modelos de dinámica de sistemas para transferir resultados de investigación en educación a la práctica docente

Juan Manuel Cruz Bohórquez, Jairo Alberto Hurtado, Eduardo Andrés Gerlein

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Abstract

Several reports on engineering education make the call to change pedagogical approaches in engineering to increasingly embed research on learning into teaching practices. Universities, and particularly colleges/schools of science and engineering, have taken different strategies to promote instructional change but with low or moderate success.literature on instructional change attempted to explain the low success of change initiatives. Such literature explains some of the factors that affect change, defining them as either drivers or barriers to change, and providing suggestions for generating the desired outcomes. However, the literature is narrow in its approach for promoting change because it is evading the implications that the complexity of academia has on change initiatives. Few references used systems science to study change in academia, limiting the discussion to linear models focused on strategies to either reduce barriers or increase drivers with expected change outcomes. Although these models seem logical, their extent has been proven largely unsuccessful, since increasing certain drivers can lead to increasing barriers and, similarly, reducing certain barriers can lead to reducing other drivers. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it argues why such change initiatives require a different approach, one that accounts for the complex nature of academia instead of the traditional approach that is based only on faculty reflection and intuition drawn from their teaching experiences and aims to solve static and simple problems. Second, to show a perspective to design change processes that accounts for the complex nature of academia. Such strategy called system dynamics modeling (SDM) uses system thinking to understand how the different components of the system interact dynamically to drive or hinder change.
Original languageSpanish
Title of host publicationMemorias del Encuentro Internacional de Educación en Ingenieria
Subtitle of host publicationEIEI ACOFI 2018
Number of pages9
Volume1
StatePublished - 01 Jun 2018

Keywords

  • SDM
  • instructional change
  • RBIS adoption

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