Repellin Moreno, Adriana Agnes
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Increasing university students engagement : a guide on how to achieve it in extracurricular non-mandatory academic experiences based on Success Center know how

2020 , Repellin Moreno, Adriana Agnes , Armesto Camargo, Georgina , Rojano, Regina

Since Success Center creation in September 2017, 1,042 students have participated in the center academic experiences. This represents approximately 25% of the University population. The participation of the students is undoubtedly due to the strategies implemented by the center to generate engagement with students. The meaning of student engagement varies from author to author. For this article, we will define student engagement as the degree of involvement, interest, motivation, and attention that students display in their learning process and how connected they are with: 1) the university environment, 2) the university activities, 3) their peers, teachers and the academic staff. For Hobsons, (2019) there are three types of engagement: “Academic engagement refers to how students react to their classwork, lessons, homework, testing, and the hands-on learning that occurs in a school environment. Social engagement contains any participatory activities that happen in school, such as friendships with other students, clubs and activities, special events, or sports. Emotional engagement refers to the personal relationships that students make with adults in their school community (p.6)”. This paper presents how Success Center, an academic center for students in Universidad Panamericana, has increased university students' engagement in extracurricular non-mandatory academic experiences. To attract students' attention, involvement, interest, and motivation it is necessary to take into account and to implement strategies in the three types of engagement exposed above. This article will cover the basic principles to do this, will show specific successful examples, and a guide for anyone that wants to implement this practice in their learning environment. ©2020 INTED2020 Proceedings

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Values and resilience of Mexico City : a workshop designed with an ethical approach to change the perception of Universidad Panamericana's campus community to deal with natural disasters

2020 , Mendieta Jiménez, Bertha Alicia , Armesto Camargo, Georgina , Repellin Moreno, Adriana Agnes

In 1985 Mexico City was struck by an earthquake of 8.1 magnitude on the Richter scale causing major disasters. After this, mexican population received training to evacuate in case of earthquake. Evacuation drills were held every year in all institutions throughout the city. In 2017 Mexico City was hit again by two strong earthquakes. The one on September 19, with a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale, left the city with a balance of 370 deads, 30000 people affected and more than 11000 buildings damaged. Hence, it was concluded that although the population received technical trainings to face natural disasters this was not enough. The Universidad Panamericana (UP) pedagogical research team (SMART Center and CIE), in close cooperation with the UP Engineering School, and the World Resources Institute (WRI) Mexico, worked together designing an innovative experience to: Raise awareness about both the Earth’s and Mexico City’s fragility. Give an integral vision of urban resilience. Present the ethical dimension of urban resilience. Generate proposals from UP campus community to reinforce the values required to contribute to urban resilience before, during and after the disaster. To achieve this goals and guide the introduction of new concepts, reflect on them, allow an active involvement and interaction among participants, a workshop format was chosen. To activate social relationship dynamics, to foster open attitudes and to stimulate a problem solving approach, three pedagogical principles were followed: interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and activeness. The workshop “Values and Resilience of Mexico City” sought to be a place for dialogue and ideation to obtain proposals from Universidad Panamericana’s campus community in order to reinforce the values that are required to contribute to urban resilience, aligned with the educational philosophy of the university: ethical and social responsibility to face emergencies arising from natural disasters. 124 people from 7 different fields of study participated. After the event the perception of knowledge and capability of the participants to contribute in a disaster from an ethical perspective increased in 44%. The experience was positively received and sparked a special enthusiasm among participants since they discovered the importance of the ethical component when facing any disaster. This paper will present the educational actions and pedagogical strategies used in the workshop in order for anyone to replicate it. ©2020 INTED2020 Proceedings.

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Organizing your life like a boss : an online experience for the enhancement of effective time management strategies

2018 , Repellin Moreno, Adriana Agnes , Armesto Camargo, Georgina

Nowadays, the scarcest resource is not money as traditional economic analysis suggests, but time. Among the main diseases of our society are those related to stress and anxiety, especially in young people. The emotional, affective, and social consequences of the lack of time to attend all areas of interest appear constantly in the media. People are increasingly required to do more and more activities hence, feeling overwhelmed as they cannot face them all (Villa & Poblete, 2007). During the launch of the Success Center, a campaign was organized on campus to identify the main needs perceived by the students of Universidad Panamericana. These results helped us develop services of interest for them. 909 students participated in the campaign; the main detected need was time management, requested by 28.4% of the students. On the other hand, the University advisers also detected time management as one of the most desired skills among students. Therefore, Organizing your life like a boss was created. In order to design this experience, the context of university students was analyzed: young people are facing changes in the way they obtain information; their reality is closely linked to digital networks, which is reflected in their globalized tastes and preferences, easier access to data, superior domain of information technology (IT), use of English as a common language, choice of audiovisual stimuli over written ones and real-time long-distance interactions (Rubio Gil, 2010). This influences their way of processing information, their understanding of reality and their way of approaching the world; which generates the need to redefine learning environments to more interactive, fast-paced and efficient ones. Organizing your life like a boss is an online course that allows students to detect how they manage their time and learn strategies to increase their productivity. The structure of the course lets students decide when, how, and where they want to do it. This guarantees that the students can start at their own level of knowledge, control their learning pace, and build their own experience. 136 students from Universidad Panamericana were enrolled in the course and the average satisfaction rate was 9.3 on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest grade and 10 being the highest. This paper presents the basic principles for the creation of this educational experience. ©2018 INTED Proceedings.

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How to generate a motivative, effective, trusting, innovative and creative work environment that fosters the creation of innovative educational experiences : Smart Center ideation

2020 , Armesto Camargo, Georgina , Repellin Moreno, Adriana Agnes , Nicolás Gavilán, María Teresa

Nowadays, education institutions seek to innovate their methodologies to enhance their learning processes to be more effective. To achieve this, it is fundamental for the people who create educational experiences to build a high-performance work team. For this, working in atmospheres that foster motivation, effectiveness, creativity, innovation, and trust is vital. Project managers play a central role in setting the work environment that generates a high-performance work team. A high-performance work team is "a group of goal-focused individuals with [...] complementary skills who collaborate, innovate and produce a consistently superior result. "[1] This paper presents the project management process that SMART CENTER, a student center at Universidad Panamericana, followed to achieve an innovative, effective and highly engaging experience called SMART Room for more than 100 students in a time frame of 5 weeks and a team of only 10 people. This article will cover each step taken for the ideation, organization, planning, and execution of the SMART Room and will explain the basic principles so that anyone can replicate it in their teams and projects. ©2020 Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability; North American Business Press.

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