1. Organization and Management of ICT in
formal institutions
ACTIVITY 1 Block 1
Abril de 2016
International Master in educational technology: e-learning and knowledge management
Teacher:
Linda Castañeda Quintero
Student:
M.Cruz Bernal González
2. 1. Introduction
Today, with the advent of ICT to education, teaching has undergone changes in its
management, organization and administration of the learning processes. These
changes do not arise from nowhere they come preceded of the need to provide quality
education and lifelong learning, thereby enabling equal opportunities for all. In this way
the use of ICT in education provides new students skills, facilitating and improving
teacher training, and minimizing the costs associated with education (UNESCO, 2013).
In recent years, the implementation of the information society and communication in all
areas of life is an indisputable fact, emerging with the need for a permanent updating of
knowledge and skills acquired throughout life. Although there is no evidence of that,
seems that ICT encourage imagination, communication and problem-solving methods,
reinforce self-esteem, improve learning autonomy and help overcome the barriers of
traditional education temporary space. In this way, organize, lead and manage an
educational institution with ICT is perhaps one of the biggest challenges encountered
with the integration of ICT in education. Often, the arrival of computers to an institution
is received with a mixture of fear and excitement, focusing in the majority of cases the
acquisition of hardware and additional software (Tedesco et al., 2008).
Then there will be a comparative analysis of the way in which structured the
Organization and management of ICT in two institutions of formal education in two
territories, in particular for comparative analysis I chose the University of Murcia (UM),
Spain, since it is the University where my studies currently conducted, and the National
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, as the number 2 in the QS World
University Rankings, British company dedicated to academic measurements. Note that
I have not selected the number 1 in the ranking for the analysis is from the University
São Paulo of Brazil and the language difficulty understanding. To analyze the structure,
organization and management of ICT in both universities, I came in four stages (Collis,
Wende y Van Der, 2002):
Scenario A: Quality control of a cohesive curriculum, experienced in the local
setting (current situation): Back to the basics.
Scenario B: Quality control of a cohesive local curriculum, available globally: The
Global Campus.
Scenario C: Individualization in the local institution: Stretching the mould.
Scenario D: Individualization and globalization: The New Economy.
3. Below explains the Organization and management of both institutions, whereas
imperative a brief description of the same, your web design, implementation of ICT,
flexibility and technological infrastructure.
2. Universidad de Murcia VS Universidad Autónoma de México
3.1. Universidad de Murcia (UM)
Description of the institution
The University of Murcia is a Spanish public University located in the Region of Murcia,
whose history goes back to the year 1272 under the Crown of Castile. Its centers and
schools are distributed in six campuses (Campus de la Merced, Campus de Espinardo,
Campus of Sciences of the health of the Palmar, San Javier Sport Sciences Campus,
Campus of Cartagena, and Lorca Campus). It is a university affiliated to the Campus of
international excellence programme in the Campus Mare Nostrum project, being of
great importance at national and global levels.
Web design
The design of the website of the University of Murcia is very well structured acquiring
the qualities of a responsive design, being his technique of designing and developing
adaptive web to different devices. Its advantages include your navigation menu
structured in different tabs, being clear site where they are heading, thus avoiding
errors when accessing a site in particular, playing organized elements on the screen of
the device, and enabling a better user in reading both your navigation experience.
Implementation of ICT
Maintenance of ICT at the University of Murcia is controlled by the Area of information
technologies and communications applied (ATTICA), which was born as a product of
the evolution of the previous computer service. Thus, ATTICA gives service and
management support to the Community College in collaboration both with public
sectors such as business of the national and international environment. This Center is
responsible for develop, maintain and manage both unavailable applications people as
resources computing of all units and Department of the University in terms of software,
teaching management and several others. The University of Murcia for the use and
implementation of ICT in the institution makes use of the following products:
4. UMUbox: discus personal network based ownCloud with characteristics similar to
Dropbox, which aims to replace the personal disc SOCRATES.
UMUapp: whose goal is to improve communication and collaboration of users of the
University, to develop this two applications (UMUapp! Mobile and UMUapp! Desktop).
Free calls between users, free calls to extensions of the University, chat and rooms
chats, searches of corporate directories, receptions of alerts and notifications, can be
performed with them access to the virtual classroom.
ICT library: web site of the library, OPAC, databases on CDROM, etc.
Virtual Classroom: Platform for the virtual teaching, where teachers and students
have different tools that facilitate the development of the teaching-learning process.
3.0 space: project that it arises from an idea by the Dean of mathematics whose main
objective is to develop a tool that acts as a closed and horizontal social network that
promotes the collaboration between students.
OAE: Open academic, whose objective is the creation of a free software that allows
you to develop a network of open collaboration environment.
EVA: Virtual desktops, project whose objective is to offer to the University an
environment of virtual desktop equipped with a control and corporate management for
the user.
TV.UM.ES: repository open multimedia
UMUMOOC: massive open courses of UM
Digitum: UM institutional digital deposit
Flexibility
The University of Murcia offers the possibility of obtaining basic or additional
competences to the academic stage through its master's degree online and distance
learning service. All of this aims to respond to the needs of a society that has been
changing over time, emerging as a result the need to adapt to the demands of the new
society. The virtual campus of the University of Murcia has the Virtual Classroom via
the space Sakai and sum Virtual Campus, both intended for the processes of teaching-
learning virtual, thereby enabling administrative services and teaching.
5. In turn, this University has a service of massive courses open on the UMUMOOC
platform, and in collaboration with MiriadaX. Counting these with a character
autonomous, massive, online, open and free.
Technological infrastructure
The University of Murcia has an infrastructure technology called UNIMURNET, which
currently has 5500 distributed network nodes in 30 buildings and linking to the Campus
of Espinardo, Campus de la Merced and Rectorate.
The connection to this network can be either through local connection through own
facilities or remotely using an external access. This infrastructure enables remote
access through public networks of PSTN, ISDN and GSM by INFOVÍA PLUS of
Telephonic. Having classrooms intended for multimedia projection, digital whiteboards,
computers located in rooms with Internet access, tools that make possible the
motivation and the working fluid of the students at the same University at the same
time, adapting facilities to the society of the 21st century.
3.2. UniversityAutonomy of México
Description of the institution
6. The National Autonomous University of Mexico is the largest in Latin America. This
University is considered to be the leading University of the Spanish speaking world. It
was founded in 1910 as a liberal alternative to the Universidad Real y Pontificia de
Mexico. In general, their campuses are the most artistic, being her University City main
campus, which includes about 40 faculties and institutes. Apart from the University City
has several venues housed in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City, as well as
elsewhere in Mexico mainly aimed at research and graduate studies.
Web design
The web design of the page from the National Autonomous University of Mexico is
clearly another example of design responsive, being adapted to different mobile
devices and with the easy handling of the browser, being main organization and
simplicity of the menus, clearly defined and distinguished by its visual design. Unlike
other websites, this clearly shows a structure clear and clean, stressing that it makes
use of a technique that allows you to create a site adapted to the conditions of the
device that the user is using at that time, covering the needs of surroundings with easy
access and search for the information.
Implementation of ICT
The University of Mexico has an open system that started in the Decade of the 70s,
promoting flexible education and the innovation of the teaching methodologies and
evaluation of knowledge, as well as the quality of teaching. This system promoted
independent study students, allowing the Elimination of time, place, age, works, among
others. Thus, it was launched the coordination of education and Open University
(CUAED), whose main objective was to serve the needs of the institution and its users.
Today the Open University system and distance (SUAyED) education is composed of
faculties, schools, centers, institutes and offices offering all of them academic training.
The University of Mexico as well as the University of Murcia offers a multimedia portal
called University viewpoint where hosts videos that facilitate the teaching-learning
process to the community. Also has a Media Campus, space intended for depositing
materials education where the contents are organized into videos and audios.
One of the main areas for the implementation of ICT in the University of Mexico is the
Virtual Classroom, which allows the interaction between academics and students both
how asynchronous synchronous manner. The virtual classrooms with synchronous
communication are BigClueButton and Blackboard Collaborate, and virtual classrooms
with asynchronous communication is Moodle.
7. This University as well as many offers a program of massive distance learning courses,
thus facilitating access to expertise complements I basic personal or academic interest.
Flexibility
UNAM has 44 years of experience in open education and distance offering studies
Bachelor's degree, degrees, continuing education, majors, master's degrees and
doctorates. Contributing to lifelong learning and integrating new forms of teaching and
learning at the same time.
For virtual training, the University of Mexico uses SUAyED, system of Open University
and distance education taught in open mode and mode distance, in schools and
faculties located in the University City campus. In addition, UNAM has about 34
massive courses online (MOOC) aimed at people who wish to acquire knowledge and
to improve their learning.
Technological infrastructure
The technological infrastructure of the University of Mexico has a tool whose
communication is the fiber optic, radio waves and copper cables, which promote
services such as access to email, Internet, videoconferences, among others,
institutional systems. This University uses the University wireless network (RIU) and
network wireless Acatlán (RIA), supported through the CeDeTec which offers
technological tools purposes oriented institutions to expand University wireless
services.
All the technological infrastructure of the University of Mexico is directed and managed
by the coordination of the technological development of the FES Center, responsible
for maintaining, plan and implement the growth of the network.
8. 3. Comparison between the two institutions
UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA UNIVERSIDAD DE MÉXICO
DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTITUTION
The University of Murcia is a public University
located in the Region of Murcia whose centers
and schools are organized into six campuses.
This University is part of the program Campus
Mare Nostrum being of great importance both
nationally and globally.
The National Autonomous University of
Mexico is the largest in Latin America. Its
main campus is the University City with 40
faculties and institutes.
DISEÑO WEB
In both universities is your web design, characterized by its implementation and maintenance.
The two institutions have web graphics aspects, interface and compatible with different mobile
devices user experience, making the seaworthiness, interactivity, usability, and information
architecture easier for its users, being the objective interaction with the medium both with
content of type audio, text, image, links or videos. The web of both institutions have a design
perfectly adapted to the cultural guidelines of the entity you represent, using the web as a
primary communication channel and exchanging data with the entire educational community.
IMPLEMENTATION OF ICT
The implementation of ICT is managed and
directed by ATTICA, providing the following
products: UMUbox, UMUapp, TICBiblioteca,
Virtual Classroom, space 3.0, OAE, tv.um.es,
EVA, UMUMOOC and Digitum.
The University of Mexico has an open system
that began in the early 70's, putting in place
the coordination of Open University and
distance education (CUAED) and the Open
University system and distance (SUAyED)
education. This University has a college
viewpoint (tv), a Campus Media, a Virtual
Classroom, as well as distance learning
courses MOOC.
In conclusion, both institutions combine studies distance and face-to-face combining the
autonomous study with both one-on-one sessions and group inside or outside the institution, so
that barriers to geographical and temporal offering studies across computer platforms where
the student can work together with the rest of his companions through the Internet.
FLEXIBILITY
It is used as main media to give flexibility to
the process of teaching-learning Virtual
Classroom virtual page and sum Virtual
Campus, also counting MOOC courses in
agreement with MiriadaX.
UNAM has 44 years of experience in distance
education, being its main objective to promote
life-long learning.
Both institutions offer the possibility to students to complete their studies in a flexible way,
without affecting their working hours or staff, being the main objective the attainment of
vocational training.
TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructure supported by ATTICA with a
network wide called UNIMURNET which has
5500 network nodes scattered around 30
buildings.
UNAM uses the University wireless network
(RIU) and the Acatlán wireless network (RIA),
infrastructure supported through the
coordination of the Centre's technological
development of FES, responsible for keeping
the entire system.
Both universities use infrastructures intended for the implementation of ICT in the institution.
However, differ in that the UNAM uses apart from areas devoted to the development of ICT
such as among others, computer rooms has a phone system where students can make
inquiries underway.
CONCLUSION
I believe that both universities manage and Organization adequately ICT in the teaching-
learning processes, giving rise to lifelong learning and promoting a flexible and adapted to the
new society space and your needs.
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