**2.3 Tertiary education quality and competitiviness**

The educational work has been understood as reconstructive science of the knowledge. That we want to motivate student from which the challenge for educators in the emerging Knowledge Society motivation lies in the appropriation of knowledge that encourages students to generate new knowledge as a way to confront the serious problems of backwardness and dependency of our own countries.

To understand the new role of lecturers is necessary to clarify what is the model that will go to rationalize and legitimize the claim to educational practices and especially the role of the teacher in the order produced by modernity and post-modernity in the informatics context; what is clear is that the traditional pedagogy of the lecturer seems to have fulfilled their life cycle. Education with information and knowledge technology based (EDUMATICS, COGNIMATICS) is an option of the lecturer from the standpoint of pedagogy which is due to its characteristic modifier for the training of future generations of engineers.

The theoretical framework of our project is also supported on models and systems including: Model of software engineering and architecture education, computational model of pedagogy, instructional model, System focused on Innovation and Learning System of thinking processes. This theoretical and conceptual framework is documented in a number of publications.

#### **2.4 Governability & sustainability problems**

It is a concept that goes beyond what administration is and is associated with the conditions of the institutional capacity to deliver the educational goods and services, the ease for decision making, the management of the new intellectual capital and related, to meet the needs of government, business and society in general. It is affected by the overload of demands and social requirements and also by factors such as the trust, the participation and the consensus building.

University Governance and Sustainability are closely associated. And as it is not a matter exclusively of educators, the sustainability is not a purely financial issue, but financially it is a strategic component of the strength of educational institutions. A model of corporate governance is the composition consistent, coherent, concerted, committed, participatory and assumed by the set of systems and actors, about ways of thinking, decision taking, acting and learning that shows an institution in the different dimensions of its strategy. In Section 4 we present the I/O model to quantitatively analyze these problems involved.

#### **2.5 A hybrid system to face superior education sector problems: A computational and mathematical model**

FESSJ-PROP and iCOACH integrate the model. Firstly, the structural system to determine and analyze cohesion and coherence of the propaedeutic cycles, between competences and the curriculum knowledge. This construct enables curricular knowledge management inside the media and higher education. Several types of matrices are developed; firstly regarding columns: the longitudinal one in time (semesters); secondly the cross one grouped by curriculum subjects, (additionally each cell of them can be expressed by fuzzy values); thirdly regarding the structure: the input/output for optimization purposes. Secondly an individualized model of student productivity to be integrated to counteract the stereotypes which considers the technical and technological cycles as relegated careers in higher education. This hybrid model is an intelligent knowledge based one which was validated

The educational work has been understood as reconstructive science of the knowledge. That we want to motivate student from which the challenge for educators in the emerging Knowledge Society motivation lies in the appropriation of knowledge that encourages students to generate new knowledge as a way to confront the serious problems of

To understand the new role of lecturers is necessary to clarify what is the model that will go to rationalize and legitimize the claim to educational practices and especially the role of the teacher in the order produced by modernity and post-modernity in the informatics context; what is clear is that the traditional pedagogy of the lecturer seems to have fulfilled their life cycle. Education with information and knowledge technology based (EDUMATICS, COGNIMATICS) is an option of the lecturer from the standpoint of pedagogy which is due

The theoretical framework of our project is also supported on models and systems including: Model of software engineering and architecture education, computational model of pedagogy, instructional model, System focused on Innovation and Learning System of thinking processes. This theoretical and conceptual framework is documented in a number

It is a concept that goes beyond what administration is and is associated with the conditions of the institutional capacity to deliver the educational goods and services, the ease for decision making, the management of the new intellectual capital and related, to meet the needs of government, business and society in general. It is affected by the overload of demands and social requirements and also by factors such as the trust, the participation and

University Governance and Sustainability are closely associated. And as it is not a matter exclusively of educators, the sustainability is not a purely financial issue, but financially it is a strategic component of the strength of educational institutions. A model of corporate governance is the composition consistent, coherent, concerted, committed, participatory and assumed by the set of systems and actors, about ways of thinking, decision taking, acting and learning that shows an institution in the different dimensions of its strategy. In Section 4

we present the I/O model to quantitatively analyze these problems involved.

**2.5 A hybrid system to face superior education sector problems: A computational** 

FESSJ-PROP and iCOACH integrate the model. Firstly, the structural system to determine and analyze cohesion and coherence of the propaedeutic cycles, between competences and the curriculum knowledge. This construct enables curricular knowledge management inside the media and higher education. Several types of matrices are developed; firstly regarding columns: the longitudinal one in time (semesters); secondly the cross one grouped by curriculum subjects, (additionally each cell of them can be expressed by fuzzy values); thirdly regarding the structure: the input/output for optimization purposes. Secondly an individualized model of student productivity to be integrated to counteract the stereotypes which considers the technical and technological cycles as relegated careers in higher education. This hybrid model is an intelligent knowledge based one which was validated

to its characteristic modifier for the training of future generations of engineers.

**2.3 Tertiary education quality and competitiviness** 

backwardness and dependency of our own countries.

**2.4 Governability & sustainability problems** 

of publications.

the consensus building.

**and mathematical model** 

with a software prototype just implemented. This construct has as its mission, the guarantee of quality assurance of student's propaedeutic cycles.

### **2.6 The propaedeutic cycles in higher education for the knowledge society**

Formation through the propaedeutic cycles is a strategy responding to new dynamics of knowledge society, and the pace of the labor market. It is characterized by developing and organizing in a flexible, sequential and complementary curriculum programs of the university. There are three levels of postsecondary education: first, the professional technician, and second, technology, and third, the university, where each level is preceded by a previous preparatory cycle. Perez Gama Alfonso et al.(2010)

Fig. 1. Education System Pyramid with articulation: flexible, sequential and complementary

This means that a person must be able, in parallel with secondary education, starting in the tenth grade their technical training. Upon completion of this first level with the skills acquired will have access to employment. But also, if he or she has successfully completed high school and professional technical program, will be able to carry out technology studies: the second formation cycle.

According to the regulations mentioned in cycles propaedeutic formation becomes a model for access to higher and more complex levels of professional competitiveness, and a response to the need to adapt the educational supply of the continually changing and expanding labor market coverage as a manifestation of the right to knowledge. Education turns its gaze towards the productive sector to inquire about their new occupational demand and to offer from a scientific and technological training, responses and solutions to their problems and needs, using new skills.

A propaedeutic cycle is an intermediate step in a sequence that allows the student to progress in their education based on their interests and capabilities; each level carries a preparatory component which enables continuity of skills throughout their training. Propaedeutic cycles form a system that follows the principles of lifelong education is related to labor market trends (local and global) in terms of adaptability to new and diverse occupational and professional opportunities, and also mobility-mediated joint and

Analytical Models for Tertiary Education by Propaedeutic

consolidates the possibilities of this flexibility.

pointed by, and

ISO certification.

Higher Education.

propaedeutic cycle.

institution is an imperative: PEI (Institution Educative Project).

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Curricular flexibility is the structure defined as the content organization, methodologies, and selected vocational training to develop study plans of school programs in which the contents are selected according to their importance, pertinence, appropriateness, technological, scientific, social and economic impact on account of the competences wanted to be cultivated and developed in the technician-professional, technologist, and engineer. The structure has been provided with a solid common nucleus in each cycle and elective subjects which will consult the stage of this art. The broad experience of in the first cycle

Academic flexibility is an open and dynamical organized system which intends to transform the rigid structures which are uncoupled as it corresponds, wherein prevails the integrated work in the application and search of knowledge, defining the professional area. An open system promotes self management and self regulation. The strategic alignment of an

Pedagogical flexibility that applies the educational strategy as a coherent unified, and integrated framework of school decisions promoted by the educational model, underlies the mentioned self-regulation and self-control by a student in his learning enabled by the ICTs, which allows him to enter to diverse learning spaces and environments tending to new educational communicative and interaction forms and also knowledge access In the same way the controls on the student about how to reach knowledge are implemented via electronic, information, and cognitive micro-worlds cultivating the competences which were



Administratively, the flexibility supposes a range of possibilities to the educational offer within the culture of educational service to the research, the academic units which compose a outstanding institution as from the policies which assigns it for relevant, important, and appropriate making-decisions according to the FESSANJOSE Development Plan 2008-2015. This flexibility entails to the necessary reengineering of the administrative processes for its

To change, if required, the policies and flexible strategies, that is, it is necessary to state the actions in different university forms for the adjustment to the organizational change that implies to manage the Technician- Professional cycle to a broader level the Technology and the Engineering level. The earlier requires thinking over the sense, purpose of the Management Model, the curricular and scholar systems, which are coherent, appropriate, and suitable to the as a Higher Education Institution. It is required: flexible policies and strategies for change, i.e. the actions must be posed in different instances, in this case the University, to adapt to organizational change that involves the passage of Cycle Professional Technician to a much wider: the cycle of technology and the University cycle. This call requires reflection on the meaning and purpose of models of management and academic systems and curriculum, seeking to be consistent, relevant and proper for the Institution of

The formation by propaedeutical cycles in all the areas of competence of the systems engineering, will facilitate the relevance of professionals of the knowledge that will work in

already explicated as well as the involved strategies in the educational model that: - Considers the integration of Academic Credit units of each engineering aspect.

possibilities of completing a cycle that provides the foundation for subsequent cycles continue, taking account among others:


#### **2.7 Required flexibility per propaedeutic cycles**

A flexible curriculum could be defined as an alternative response to the linear and inflexible studies in higher education, which breaks with the system of serial and mandatory courses. To deal with rigidities it is required a comprehensive system of flexibility as the antithesis to the same. The high repetition and dropout rates are economic and cultural phenomena that have affected the higher education system in general.

As mentioned before the actual Education System is rigid, hard and forces the student to reentry as contrasting with propaedeutic cycles in which the flexibility is mandatory. The curriculum is defined as the set of criteria, study programs, methodology and processes contributing to the integral formation and to the national identify construction, including aids the scholar human resources to put into practice the policy to carry out the PEI (Institutional Educational Project acronym). The flexibility refers to the curricular, academic, pedagogical and administrative ones, that is, the use of the university autonomy to manage knowledge as well as the study plan for whom do not accomplish with the requirements to come up to higher cycles, and besides to relocate learning contexts supported by ICT. We describe them bellow

Fig. 2. Flexibility Required

possibilities of completing a cycle that provides the foundation for subsequent cycles




other, in order to study phenomena or concepts from single disciplinary approach.

A flexible curriculum could be defined as an alternative response to the linear and inflexible studies in higher education, which breaks with the system of serial and mandatory courses. To deal with rigidities it is required a comprehensive system of flexibility as the antithesis to the same. The high repetition and dropout rates are economic and cultural phenomena that

As mentioned before the actual Education System is rigid, hard and forces the student to reentry as contrasting with propaedeutic cycles in which the flexibility is mandatory. The curriculum is defined as the set of criteria, study programs, methodology and processes contributing to the integral formation and to the national identify construction, including aids the scholar human resources to put into practice the policy to carry out the PEI (Institutional Educational Project acronym). The flexibility refers to the curricular, academic, pedagogical and administrative ones, that is, the use of the university autonomy to manage knowledge as well as the study plan for whom do not accomplish with the requirements to come up to higher cycles, and besides to relocate learning contexts supported by ICT. We describe them bellow

**REQUIRED FLEXIBILITIES FOR THE PROPAEDEUTIC CYCLES** 

**PEDAGOGICAL**

*CREDIT MANAGEMENT, FORMS OF PAYMENTS, GRANTS AND INCENTIVES TO* 

*STUDENTS*

*STUDY PLANS FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF ASCEND A HIGHER CYCLE*

**ADMINISTRATIVE**

**ACADEMIC**

continue, taking account among others:

dropout rates.

ratings, allowing alternating study and work;

**2.7 Required flexibility per propaedeutic cycles** 

have affected the higher education system in general.

**CURRICULAR**

*TO RELOCATE SUPPORTED LEARNING CONTEXTS* 

*BY ICTS*

Fig. 2. Flexibility Required

*USE OF UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY FOR MANAGING KNOWLEDGE*

Curricular flexibility is the structure defined as the content organization, methodologies, and selected vocational training to develop study plans of school programs in which the contents are selected according to their importance, pertinence, appropriateness, technological, scientific, social and economic impact on account of the competences wanted to be cultivated and developed in the technician-professional, technologist, and engineer. The structure has been provided with a solid common nucleus in each cycle and elective subjects which will consult the stage of this art. The broad experience of in the first cycle consolidates the possibilities of this flexibility.

Academic flexibility is an open and dynamical organized system which intends to transform the rigid structures which are uncoupled as it corresponds, wherein prevails the integrated work in the application and search of knowledge, defining the professional area. An open system promotes self management and self regulation. The strategic alignment of an institution is an imperative: PEI (Institution Educative Project).

Pedagogical flexibility that applies the educational strategy as a coherent unified, and integrated framework of school decisions promoted by the educational model, underlies the mentioned self-regulation and self-control by a student in his learning enabled by the ICTs, which allows him to enter to diverse learning spaces and environments tending to new educational communicative and interaction forms and also knowledge access In the same way the controls on the student about how to reach knowledge are implemented via electronic, information, and cognitive micro-worlds cultivating the competences which were already explicated as well as the involved strategies in the educational model that:


Administratively, the flexibility supposes a range of possibilities to the educational offer within the culture of educational service to the research, the academic units which compose a outstanding institution as from the policies which assigns it for relevant, important, and appropriate making-decisions according to the FESSANJOSE Development Plan 2008-2015. This flexibility entails to the necessary reengineering of the administrative processes for its ISO certification.

To change, if required, the policies and flexible strategies, that is, it is necessary to state the actions in different university forms for the adjustment to the organizational change that implies to manage the Technician- Professional cycle to a broader level the Technology and the Engineering level. The earlier requires thinking over the sense, purpose of the Management Model, the curricular and scholar systems, which are coherent, appropriate, and suitable to the as a Higher Education Institution. It is required: flexible policies and strategies for change, i.e. the actions must be posed in different instances, in this case the University, to adapt to organizational change that involves the passage of Cycle Professional Technician to a much wider: the cycle of technology and the University cycle. This call requires reflection on the meaning and purpose of models of management and academic systems and curriculum, seeking to be consistent, relevant and proper for the Institution of Higher Education.

The formation by propaedeutical cycles in all the areas of competence of the systems engineering, will facilitate the relevance of professionals of the knowledge that will work in

Analytical Models for Tertiary Education by Propaedeutic

matrices is presented bellow.

**3.1.1 Objetives of FESSJ-PROP model** 

methodological strategic.

**3.1.2 Specific objectives** 

higher education.

propaedeutic cycle.

propaedeutic cycles.

education.

hand in each propaedeutic cycle.

**3.2 Relationships description and architecture** 

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determine and analyze the cohesion and coherence of the propedaeutic cycles between competences and the curriculum knowledge. This construct enables curricular knowledge management inside the media and higher education. One example of several types of

The Leontief innovation started by changing the monetary unit by the academic credit as usual in education. The concept of industry at macro-economic level we changed at university micro-economic level and changing by education process: knowledge (of the









It refers the logical-cognitive relationships among the architecture parts of an educational system. It is as much an analysis instrument as a linear mathematical structure that communicates (all communication action is a pedagogical one), enabling the justification of a study plan and giving it as an organized and complex totality interlinking the interior and



study plan) and competences as it is illustrated in Figure 4 bellow. It is searches:

democratization of knowledge executed by the National Constitution. - To improve the prospective scope as a tool for constructing future in institutions.

facing the Colombian Universities undertaking these projects


projections of subjects and competences/expertise.

external coherency and consistency. Among the objectives are:

the global society and on behalf of a growing country where the intellectual capital should be distinguished for its formation in architectures and engineering of software, the capacity of investigation, development of intelligent systems, under the paradigms of government of the ICT and of the management information systems, taking care of the environment and in defense of the values and life.

Fig. 3. Continuity cycle: flexible, sequential and complementary

This Figure 3, emphasizes that propaedeutic cycle education is more robust than the traditional model: an *all terrain professional*.
