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| EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION |
| a) RECOMMENDATIONS TO GOVERNMENTS |
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| * To create instruments to enhance educational innovation. |
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| * To promote intercultural education and produce statistics to measure the |
| participation of students, teachers, and researchers, especially indigenous and |
| afro-descent individuals in higher education. |
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| * To motivate professors by providing career plans and salary compensation levels, |
| promoting continuous training and appropriate conditions to achieve professional |
| performance. |
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| * To foster the use of ICTs throughout the education system and promote virtual |
| education with appropriate quality assurance mechanisms. |
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| * To create regulatory and support mechanisms to encourage entrepreneurial |
| vision and educational innovation. |
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| * To organize working groups comprised of Higher Education institutions experts |
| and government specialists in order to move forward in the process of educational |
| innovation. |
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| * To bring together teams of Higher Education institutions experts and government |
| specialists to consolidate the process of educational innovation. |
| b) RECOMMENDATIONS TO HEI |
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| * To develop new curricula, educational models, and academic strategies with |
| attention to the new contexts, comprehensive training and the relations between |
| professionals and the labor-market; to provide more choices for students within the |
| educational systems, with flexible curricula to facilitate their movement within the |
| structure, to promote new paths including inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and |
| trans-disciplinary perspectives that allows an exchange with other national and |
| international institutions. |
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| * To broaden continued education offerings as a goal to generalize life-long |
| learning higher education. |
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| * To foster permanent capacity building for professors in new instruction/learning |
| models, providing skills to work in complex educational environments, with |
| heterogeneous groups, or individuals of diverse cultural and social backgrounds. |
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| * To assure interaction and commitment with other levels of instruction, contributing |
| to the quality of primary and secondary education and to the eradication of |
| illiteracy, by enhancing training at all levels of education, including formal and |
| informal sectors, technical degrees and programs compatible with employment. |
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| * To foster the use of ICTs in higher education, to increase offerings of distance |
| education, creating support centers and innovative models such as joint programs, |
| modular courses and certification by modules among others in order to modernize |
| academic practices, increase coverage of HE, diversify offerings and democratize |
| access to knowledge. |
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| * To establish and support lines of research aimed at attempting educational |
| innovations at different moments of the educational process, from curriculum |
| design to academic experiences in the fields of learning and instruction and |
| “learning to learn” programs. |
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| * To strengthen social and humanities studies, which are the crosscutting keys |
| areas to best prepare students in all university courses. |