Archive for June, 2022

It is not possible to talk about the quality of life that one has, individually or as a group, if one does not enjoy respect for the rights and guarantees that correspond to every person due to the simple fact that they are natural rights, that is, that by their nature they correspond to to every individual that belongs to the human species.

The right to life, the right to health, the right to education, the right to citizen security and legal certainty, the right to free development of personality, the right to equality before the law, the right to freedom of expression, free information or living in democracy, are emblematic examples of issues in which the existence of quality of life cannot be affirmed where these are violated.

Quality of life is a term that designates the conditions in which a person lives with the sole objective of seeking or obtaining comprehensive satisfaction. In order to obtain quality of life, basic needs and opportunities must be maintained in our place of settlement and in our social environment. These basic needs range, as we have said before, from nutrition and housing to personal security.

This topic of interest and current affairs dealt with by our consultant, Dr. Leonel Ferrer, is part of the line of # research carried out by #Asesórate

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In the last decades, higher education has been influenced by an important and growing technological mediation. Today, with the impact caused by the pandemic, this mediation has deepened, with demands increasingly focused on hybrid and distance education, which is applied to a larger context of people and communities in the educational field.

Without losing genuine interest in the noble and experienced face-to-face education, current challenges call for a hybrid education with high sufficiency to meet present and future needs with a high level of effectiveness. For this reason, it is necessary to combine efforts in the creation and development of educational and technological management methods that are based on training within the framework of a better quality of life and the effective use of technological potential.

This redounds to the benefit of personal fulfillment in the various personal, family, professional and citizen spheres, to promote quality of life in an inclusive and global sense. Situation that deserves a strengthened educational vision in hybrid (face-to-face and mixed education) and virtual environments, with options that are not completely new, but innovative in their development, management and results. This is how changes in direction are valued, towards different types of users: full-time students, active young professional students and communities of older adults, professionals or not.

It aspires to incorporate new modalities of virtual training, in the face of the well-known trend of educating for life (long learning), valid but insufficient, through the curricular flexibility of institutions for the creation of short, high-impact hybrid training modalities professional. To meet the requirements of the digital age, new personalized training itineraries have emerged, with alternative credentials to certify skills in the development of new skills, complementary to conventional careers.

Virtual degree offers for adults of any age and profession are attached to this scheme, whose quality of life can be improved from the non-conventional degree. Hybrid and distance education can be seen, then, in a context of collective interest and responsibility, inclusion, solidarity, equity and collaboration. To do so, it has an impressive technological potential that is not yet available to all social groups as would be desirable.

If you want to know more about this topic addressed by our PhD consultant. Alejandra Fernández, we invite you to contact us to learn about our catalog of courses and services.

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One of the fundamental challenges of higher education that became more visible as a result of the pandemic is to overcome the digital divide, facing economic obstacles and various types of social discrimination that allow the phenomenon of exclusion to be reduced.

On the one hand, it is about strengthening spaces in various formats and modes of participation for reflection and dialogue between people and communities at a local and global level. And on the other, to consolidate, energize and expand cultural diversity in a permanently transforming academic environment (ONU, 2021b).

It is not only necessary to promote adequate training and the achievement of skills, but also to expand and consolidate the space for research, innovation, social transformation and the use of knowledge beyond academic borders. Added to this is the need for education to be effectively intercultural, in such a way that the scientific community and in general the learning community is increasingly broad and accommodates the various social sectors, in such a way that knowledge is assumed as a common good.

Another challenge is to achieve a balanced level between offers and individual training needs. The personalization of teaching must be a fundamental task, since it is an education that must be tailored to the needs of the individual and not rigidly subject to the training plans offered by higher education institutions. In this context, the transversality between the disciplines cannot be guided only by the opinion of the experts; It is not a training experience that is decreed through training programs, but must also respond to the personal and social development that the increasingly complex dimension of knowledge entails, seen as an organic experience of inclusion (ONU, 2020b). .

This topic discussed by our consultant Ana Beatriz Martínez, is part of some of the research carried out by the #Asesórate team.

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