2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
THE Management of Learning Process in the Context of Modernization of Undergraduate Programs at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)’S Polytechnical School
Presented at Student Performance and Learning & Open-ended problems
National Parameters for Undergrad Engineering Programs determine that these programs establish management of learning processes, which are constituted of: (i) definition of competences to be assessed, (ii) definition of instruments for assessment, (iii) assessment of competences, (iv) result analysis, (v) proposition and implementation of improvements in the curriculum and (vi) evaluation of these actions. In this context, developing and implementing such a process to modernize undergrad engineering programs is assumed as a strategy of the program known as Projeto de Modernização da Graduação (PMG), developed at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) since 2019 as an initiative of CAPES and Fullbright. Therefore, the management of learning processes constitutes a strategy of PMG, as an instrument of university educational management focused on ensuring the development of student’s learning skills. Thus, the implementation of a learning management process constituted by the collection and analysis of data referring to the learning of the group of students becomes a premise of the Undergraduate Engineering Courses. This process, strongly originated in the Assurance of Learning dimension, which, in turn, comes from the international accreditation movements of business schools around the world, is of interest to the management of curriculums as systematic processes and assessment plans that collectively demonstrate that students achieve competences of learning for the programs in which they participate. The objective of this work is to analyze the implementation of the assessment of learning process at UNISINOS Escola Politécnica, examining its impact on the curriculum management from the program coordinators perspective. This implementation process was designed as a training program for coordinators of the 19 undergrad programs involved aiming at their development as managers of the process and, in the first stage, at the mapping of the curriculum to define the learning competences considered as core specific knowledge in each program. These curriculum maps make the result of coordinators' development visible, not only revealing their learnings in relation to the stages and characteristics of the process, but also making it evident that the process itself ended up being a locus for undergrad modernization, oriented by an authorial and innovative positioning of the University in relation to curriculum management processes. Thus, both the management of the learning process implemented, and its own implementation process triggered a series of transformations, from a curricular level to a university educational management level.
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Mr. Sérgio Klippel Filho Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS
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Vanessa Oerle Kautzmann Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS
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Dr. Fernanda Pacheco UNISINOS [biography]
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Dr. Cristiane Maria Schnack UNISINOS [biography]
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Dr. Uziel Cavalcanti de Medeiros Quinino . Univeridade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS. [biography]
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