Integrating Intercultural Competence development into the curriculum through TelecollaborationA task sequence proposal for Higher Education

  1. Iciar Elexpuru 1
  2. María José Bezanilla 1
  3. Luana Ferreira Lopes 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Deusto
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    Universidad de Deusto

    Bilbao, España

    ROR https://ror.org/00ne6sr39

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RED: revista de educación a distancia

ISSN: 1578-7680

Año de publicación: 2018

Número: 58

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.6018/RED/58/7 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumen

Pese al potencial de la telecolaboración para desarrollar la Competencia Intercultural y otras competencias en la Educación Superior del siglo XXI, todavía no ha logrado consolidarse en la formación universitaria. De acuerdo con la literatura, es preciso desarrollar modelos instruccionales sostenibles para responder a esta necesidad. El principal objetivo de este trabajo es proponer una secuencia de tareas de telecolaboración para el desarrollo de la Competencia Intercultural en el curriculum universitario. A partir de la tipología de tareas propuesta por O’Dowd & Ware (2009), enriquecida con el trabajo de otros autores, dicha secuencia: (1) facilita el desarrollo de la Competencia Intercultural según el modelo EMIC, adaptado al contexto del trabajo virtual, (2) ofrece instrucciones detalladas para cada tarea, (3) contiene orientaciones para la configuración de la telecolaboración, la tecnología a utilizar y la integración de las tareas en el curso y (4) sugiere un plan de evaluación con un listado de evidencias de aprendizaje que deben ser manifestadas por los alumnos en cada tarea. La propuesta podrá servir como referencia para futuras adaptaciones a diferentes contextos. La secuencia de tareas se está actualmente pilotando en dos proyectos de telecolaboración y se espera que los resultados puedan contribuir a su mejora.

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This research was financially supported by The Research Training Grants Programme of University of Deusto (2015-2018).

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