LASPAU recognizes the importance
of establishing alliances with other
organizations committed to fostering
excellence in higher education in
order to expand the range of benefits
for universities who request assistance
through its teaching and learning initiative,
IDIA. Recent partnerships include:
CDIO™ Initiative: Competency-Based
Curricular Reform
Conceived in the late 1990s in the Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics at
MIT, CDIO is an innovative program
that teaches engineering fundamentals
set in the context of the Conceiving–
Designing–Implementing–Operating
process that engineers use to create systems
and products. CDIO has attracted
collaborating institutions around the
world that are using the program as
the framework for curricular planning
and outcome–based assessment. At the
Séneca Program workshop in December
2008, MIT researcher and CDIO team
leader Doris Brodeur used the CDIO
model to help UNITEC develop competency-
based curricula for the schools
of business and engineering.
ICA2: Innovación y Tecnología:
Knowledge Management
ICA2 is a knowledge management company
based in Spain that uses innovative
technologies to assist universities in identifying,
organizing, and disseminating
key knowledge. Through the web-based
ICA2 system, separate areas of an institution
or collaborative partners in different
institutions can develop, share, and
respond to information and ideas. During
the second UAT University Leadership
Seminar organized by LASPAU in
February 2009, ICA2 President Reinaldo
Plaz led a one-day knowledge management
session for administrative and academic
deans from across the university.
Universidad Diego Portales: Faculty
Performance Assessment
The Universidad Diego Portales (UDP)
of Chile has developed an online system
for monitoring, evaluating, and recognizing
faculty work and performance.
The system organizes and tracks a faculty
member’s academic career through
an objective incentive system that can
be accessed both by the individual professor
and by academic administrators.
As a component of IDIA’s work with
Proyecto Aprender in 2009, UDP will
lead a conference on faculty assessment
systems for UNAH administrators and
faculty in order to help the university
develop its own permanent and transparent
system.
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