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Professional development courses - Taught to faculty

Introduction to the definition of Content, Assessment and Pedagogy from the learning goals.

 Place: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá, Colombia. South America.
Students: Engineering faculty interested in the topic. 10 students.
Method of teaching: workshop: lectures followed by project activities regarding the course topics.
Assessment: early and final course evaluation.
Relation to contemporary research: Current curriculum development, learning theories, and transfer of learning literature.
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Graduate Level

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá

Module of Social responsibility for Information and Communications Technologies. Course: Informatics Project Management. Program: Master in Systems Engineering and Computing

Students: fall-2009: 14. fall-2010: 26.
Method of teaching: Lectures, role games, online forums to create dialogues among peers and peer assessment. Case discussions and group assignments. We went from the big picture of social responsibility, participative design, and social capital, to the details on how this was or could be applied to student’s organizations.
Assessment: Essays, group presentations, written group assignments, and peer assessments.
Relation to contemporary research: Case studies proposed by me, and case study proposed by each team from a company of one of the team members.
My Role and effort: Module creator, lecturer, examiner. The module took three classes (9 hours per year in class, several hours of preparation not accounted).

Undergraduate level

University of Florida

CGS2531 - Problem-Solving with Computer Software

Spring 2018 (2 sections, approx 560 students), Summer C (1 section, approx 150 students), Spring (2 sections, approx 430 students)

Purdue University

ENG131 - Transforming ideas to innovation I

Fall 2013 (1 section, approx 110 students) / Fall 2014 (2 sections, approx 240 students)

ENG 132 - Transforming ideas to innovation II

Spring 2014 (2 sections, approx 240 students)

Course content developer for ENGR 132

Summer 2014,  Spring 2015

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Systems thinking

2006-3, 2007-1, 2007-3, 2008-1, 2008-3, 2009-1, 2009-3, 2010-1, 2010-3, 2011-1

Introduction to systems engineering

2008-1, 2008-3

Research Methodology

2009-1, 2010-1

Universidad Católica de Colombia

Introduction to systems engineering

2004-3, 2005-1

General systems theory

2004-3, 2005-1

Community Informatics

2005-1
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