CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

The PFPD "The Educatrónica in cyber Territories" is an academic program for education of teachers developed jointly by the National Pedagogical University of Colombia (UPN) and the LatinCampus Corporate University.

UPN-LatinCampus alliance occurs in the context of strategic rapprochement in Colombia between the Universities and Knowledge Industry.

Because the program offered contains very specific topics (The Educatronic) for very specific contexts (Cybersocial Territories) under a very specific didactic strategy (e-learning, e-training, and trainer-devices). It is necessary that the National Pedagogic University of Colombia (UPN) draw on a strategic alliance with a global and cybersocial expert (LatinCampus Organization) in this type of training processes whenever LatinCampus has: the content, technology resources, and the human team to perform this PFPD, with educational and administrative supervision of the National Pedagogical University.

GOALS

• Promote in the Colombian society the immersion in the Cybersocial sceneries, through learning processes that encourage the use of technology, applying the Educatronic as teaching strategy in the formation of cognitive-skills competences into academic society.
  
  
• Ensuring formation processes with the highest standards of academic quality for teachers in the country, establishing alliances with experts in the implementation and operation of virtual learning processes.
  

THEMATIC UNITS

1. Fundamentos en Educación Virtual The Paradigm A new paradigm? The Digital Age Being Digital Digital Reading and Writing Hypertext Hypermedia Iconography Ideograph Dynamics Virtual Education Roles Virtual learning Virtual teaching Virtual institutions	2. Pedagogía en Entornos Virtuales Epistemology Theory of Knowledge Pedagogy Architecture Pedagogic Theory: Models Anti-authoritarian pedagogies Behaviorism in Virtual Environments Constructivism in Virtual Environments Cognocitivism in Virtual Environments Complex Thought The pedagogic e-clecticism Pedagogic Practice: Methodology and Didactic Didactic in Virtual Environment The constructionism didactic
3. Educación y Cibersociedad Globalization Fundamentals Region vs. State Platforms and Trademark Cybersociety Fundamentals e-Commerce Intelligent Buildings Legislation in the cybersociety e-Institutions The Corporate University The Globalized Universities	4. Constructionism and Trainer-devices Fundamentals in Educatronic The LatinCampus-Equation for Educatronic Systems Simulation and Expert Systems Educatronic Trainer-devices Educational Robotics Interactive-Globalized Classroom Control Networks
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