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Virtual research and learning communities in Latin America
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Caicedo, Mario I. Camacho, Rubio Cordero, Fernando Febres García, Francisco Hernandez, Hector Rodríguez, José Antonio López Manjarrés, Joany Martínez, Homero Mendoza, C. Millan, Barbara Montano, Jacobo Núñez, Luis Alberto Ocariz, José Paredes, Daniela Perez, Luis Alejandro Smith, Camila Rangel Sánchez, Arturo Torres, Heberth |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | In the current information age, we would expect upgrades of the traditional educational models to cope with the growing demands of collaborative knowledge generation and the new profiles of the informational entrepreneurs driving the world economy. In this respect, higher education is rapidly becoming globally distributed, communal and inseparable from the actual research enterprise: knowledge generation, deployment, application and transfer are taking place in the same physical and social context. Distributed learning mainly relies on community interactions and cognitive tools (Swan and Shea, 2005) and, consequently, the ‘virtual research and learning community’ (VRLC) becomes a powerful scheme in the implementation of modern graduate courses, considering its possibilities for multi-institutional participation, synchronous and asynchronous online engagement, decentralized student discussions, academic networking and cost effectiveness. This type of collective lecturing arrangements also exposes students to cutting-edge experimental infrastructures, and presents them with a variety of concepts and techniques not found in standard textbooks. Applications of these initiatives are particularly relevant in highly developed research fields such as particle physics. Following this trend of thought and with the intention of stimulating and widening the physics education in Colombia and Venezuela, we implemented the virtual-community course ‘Introduction to Particle Physics’, which took place during the semesters September 2014 February 2015 and March 2016 July 2016. This was in part possible due to a group of young Venezuelan researchers, referred to as CEVALE2VE (2014), that is currently working in international collaborations in high-energy physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Eurocourse on particle physics that was given at several Venezuelan and Colombian national universities and research institutions during the semesters September 2014 February 2015 and March 2016 July 2016. Different course implementation aspects are reviewed to encourage and facilitate similar regional initiatives in the near future. SUMMARY |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.interciencia.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/733-MENDOZA-42-11.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
