Education and Culture in times of Covid in Ecuador

towards an online education system

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26871/killkanasocial.v8i1.1240

Keywords:

Covid, ICT, Education, Pandemic, Virtual

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The objective of this article is to identify how the current educational system in Ecuador, as well as the world crisis of the Covid-19, propitiated a divergent path to the established traditional education in reference to the need of a distance modality supported by the new information and communication technologies, derived in the so-called online education, and with it, the new trends and formative needs that it demands to the new educational actors, teachers and students, to reach an adequate coupling in the teaching-learning processes mediated by technology. The aspect of cultural development is necessarily grafted in the conditioning factors of the new proposal, as an element of relevant importance that, as a transversal axis, supports the training for an effective insertion of the country's education in the so-called global village, which requires the management of various pedagogical, technical, technological, scientific and social skills in favor of an effective intercultural and global action, in a country that by its own characteristics is multicultural, multiethnic and plurinational.

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Author Biography

Giancarlo Giorgio De Agostini Solines, Universidad Católica de Cuenca

ACADEMIC WORK

 

1972-1997 (Venezuela)

 

He served as Professor with Tenure at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB), Caracas, Venezuela, at the Mathematics and Computer Science department.

 

Additionally, to his teaching assignment, during that period, he also worked as:

 

Director (founder) Computing Center

Director Central Library (8000 m²)

University Registrar

Director Central Archives

Director (founder) Graduate program in Educational Informatics

Director Multimedia Center

Director University´s Educational Television

 

1997-1999 Work realized in other universities: USR (Universidad Simón Rodríguez) Technology Director; UNIMET (Universidad Metropolitana) forming their future “on line” professors.

 

1999-present (Ecuador)

 

Professor at the following universities:

 

UDLA – Universidad de las Américas (full time undergraduate)

UASB -  Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (full time graduate school)

FLACSO – Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (half time graduate school)

President and CEO at FUVIA.org (e-Learning foundation).

CIO at CVI.edu.ec (totally online High School for vulnerable students)

IAEN – Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales, full time graduate school Professor and Director of e-Learning multimedia production and innovation center.

Universidad Católica de Cuenca (full time Professor and Director of e-Learning multimedia production (at present).

 

 

 

STUDIES

 

Notre Dame High School, Rome, Italy; BSEE (Electrical Engineering) and MSICS (Master of Science in Information and Computer Science) both at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Ga. Tech.), Atlanta, Georgia. Complete doctoral studies in Andragogy at Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas; PDCDE University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (Professional eLearning Certificate); e-Learning facilitator at Dynamind, Australia.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Education at Atlantic International University, Miami, Florida.

 

 

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

 

During several years he was UNESCO-ROSTLAC consultant. Conferences and workshops in Educational Technology at various institutions and public and private universities in: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, France, England, México, Namibia, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Dominican Republican, Uruguay and Venezuela.

 

He worked as Professor in Mathematics, Computer Science, Electronics and e-Learning consultant. Over 30 published materials and more than a dozen educational socio-cultural university projects: Computer programming via audiovisuals, MATH 100 – personalized studies, Informatics for all, among others. He designed graduate programs in Educational Technology (USB), Online Teaching, and Learning Online (UASB). Pedagogical and technological complete development and implementation of a totally online High School “Iberoamericano” with total approval by the Secretary of Education oriented to vulnerable adult students and minorities through scholarships – This Project obtained the Stockholm 2008-2009 prize for the effective use of ICT in support of Education and the first Japanese prize to the most innovating project (MIDP) at Kuwait, 2009.

 

Additionally, He implemented several educational online developments in different universities in Ecuador such as:  FLACSO, UASB, IAEN, CIESPAL-SENESCYT and the National Police. An invitation was received from UNESCO to participate in the “Workshop to review and enhance the use of ICT in Education, Windhoek, Namibia, 12 – 15 November 2007, NAMCOL Center.

 

He served as Coordinator (ad honorem) of the CONESUP team to prepare national norms to regulate the online education. He holds posts as President (ad honorem) at UVIA foundation (non for profit), Secretary and Treasurer (ad honorem) at InfoDesarrollo Network. Course design experience with eLearning platforms such as: MOODLE, WebCT, Blackboard, edX, UV, Competir and Canvas, among others.

 

Languages: English, Italian, Spanish.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2886-0294

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2024-01-08
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How to Cite

De Agostini Solines, G. G. (2024). Education and Culture in times of Covid in Ecuador: towards an online education system. Killkana Social, 8(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.26871/killkanasocial.v8i1.1240