Plenary: Innovation in Engineering Teaching and Assessment in a Pandemic. Comparative analysis Argentina - Colombia

摘要

The COVID-19 pandemic has surprised the world in general and the education system in particular. Everybody's lives have changed abruptly, for their own sake. In the academic environment, university teachers, students, and managers had to adjust their daily activities and adapt the “traditional” rules of the game to an unprecedented reality. Teachers had to innovate straightaway, with no time to prepare themselves. Having finished the first 2020 semester, which will remain etched in history and in the memory of all teachers, it was necessary to reflect, trying to identify and raise awareness of the positive aspects and innovations that these circumstances have generated in the training of engineers. With this goal in mind, the Group of Engineering Competencies of FASTA University together with MECEK laboratory of Argentina designed a tool called “Workshop of co-construction of new teaching practices” which was developed in Argentina and in Colombia with a group of teachers of both countries who volunteered for the activity. This paper presents the methodology and comparative results of these workshops which collected the opinions and experiences of more than 170 teachers of engineering programs of both countries.