Curriculum Fundamentals
International Lauderdale University is a university with an international vision that seeks to train citizens of the world, prepared to practice a profession with superior values, understanding and skills, with the ability to learn in different contexts and modalities and respond to the needs and expectations of the global society. knowledge, science and technology.
The vision of forming citizens of the world involves the generation of spaces for study, analysis, reflection, research and proposal of feasible alternatives to build a better world, where respect, inclusion, valuing others, proactive leadership, creativity , innovation, entrepreneurship and commitment to quality, constitute the basis of professional training with cognitive abilities and initiative and high values of integrity.
International Lauderdale University is an aggregate university in the world of the 21st century, developing innovative methods of learning and research as part of a continuous learning model, which strengthens what, how to think and what to do to respond to changes in the world. post-industrialization era.
Its objective is to provide opportunities to its students and graduates so that they have flexible and continuous spaces for specialization and updating that allow them to constantly reinvent themselves, in accordance with the global context that moves towards change and continuous improvement.
We promote open and distance learning modalities in an internationally competitive academic offer, designed to stimulate the entry and exit of students and professionals from the University. This as a strategy to promote continuing education and turn it into a training space for a community of permanent learning and development of skills for employability, rather than for the exercise of a profession. Since the trend of this century is that the person can perform different jobs throughout their life; or that it is appropriate to perform or exercise different functions or change the way in which they are performed. This is due to the tendency to change, innovations, technology integration, vulnerability and other factors typical of the current era.
Curricular Approach
In the curricular project of International Lauderdale University, it is aligned with the institutional mission, the strategic objectives of the study plan and the design of its careers, in a curricular approach with a vision of comprehensive training, which privileges learning and focuses on the student. , with a global and ethical vision.
Comprehensive training includes the development of general competencies specific to higher education that are reflected in a general training axis, and the specific or professional competencies of the careers with their certifications and micro-certifications.
Defining the “comprehensive approach” as the curriculum approach means that the concept of universalization of knowledge and the multivariety of disciplines come together in the formation of higher education; as well as with the diversity of careers and professional profiles that are formed. It is necessary to implement different teaching methodologies or strategies that respond to learning styles and individual differences.
The comprehensive approach involves considering various visions of university education with their different criteria and principles; among them the psychological, academic, socio-constructivist, technological and dialectical aspects; among others.
International Lauderdale University bases its curricular project on the following paradigms:
Curricular Paradigms
- Education is a comprehensive training process that values being as a person responsible for their knowledge, actions and coexistence.
- The student is the center of the process; He is an active subject of his own learning.
- The teacher is a facilitator and mediator between the students' learning and knowledge, a process strengthened by their leadership and mastery of the knowledge of their profession and the appropriate and timely didactics that allows students to develop the expected competencies.
- The educational process is the active interaction between students and teachers in accordance with the elements of the curriculum.
- Curriculum management is an organized and systematic process that defines the actions carried out at the institutional level.
- The methodological criterion is based on an active methodology that stimulates high-level thinking and the development of soft and hard skills that are integrated into quality professional practice, as well as the ability to learn to learn and the ability to acquire new skills.
- Quality is an institutional effort organized through the implementation of planning and monitoring strategies, the formation of teams of specialists, the processes of performance evaluation and teaching satisfaction, and the acquisition of technological support that allows better communication and automation of the processes.
The design and curricular development of International Lauderdale University is based on strategic objectives that allow the achievement of the proposed objectives as an institution.
Strategic objectives of the curriculum
- Present to the target population a diverse academic offer, with quality and relevance.
- Offer students a virtual education option in Spanish.
- Promote comprehensive training that allows developing the skills and attitudes of a leading, committed and excellent professional.
- Ensure, through systematized curricular specification processes, the achievement of the proposed objectives.
- Promote ethics training courses in all careers and programs.
- Promote the application of active methodologies for the development of vocational training and employability.
- Integrate technology into learning activities with projection to professional practice.
- Promote self-evaluation and hetero-evaluation of careers with the purpose of updating, readjusting or other curricular changes, as well as the development of improvement plans and assurance of quality and relevance.
Curriculum template
In accordance with the foundations, approaches and objectives of International Lauderdale University, an articulated and coherent curricular model is established within the careers, as well as the alignment of the different levels of training in a continuous training model.
General outline of the model
The Continuing Training model for the professional offer has a learning itinerary based on three principles: a) design of careers by learning blocks that lead to the achievement of hours/credits for micro-certifications, certifications and obtaining degrees, b) coherence of training between bachelor's and master's degrees and c) alignment of careers with continuing training procedures.
1.
Design by learning blocks: the courses have a curricular design that allows the student to develop their learning with criteria of flexibility, relevance and sequentiality; obtaining during the process the academic recognition of certifications and micro-certifications, according to their progress.
- Flexibility allows the student to enroll in the degree, following the bimonthly periods in the established order, which enables them to receive the diploma corresponding to the certifications and microcertifications designed for the degree. At the same time, flexibility opens the opportunity for the student to enroll only in the certifications and microcertifications that they prefer and that are offered. Even if the student does not approve the certifications and microcertifications in the order given by the career design; Upon completing them, you have the right to receive the respective title, upon presentation of the product of the “final project”.
- Relevance in career design, with its certifications and microcertifications, is the criterion that allows students to build their academic history at International Lauderdale University according to their interests and motivations; especially focused on the labor field.
- Sequentiality as a principle in career design at International Lauderdale University guarantees the coherent and comprehensive development of learning based on the area of professional training.
2.
Coherence between levels of training: undergraduate courses are coherently articulated with master's courses, providing the opportunity for students to find at International Lauderdale University the academic path of their training, specialization and professional updating.
3.
Alignment with curricular and extracurricular activities: the curricular framework of the different careers is aligned with courses, seminars, workshops, conferences and other continuous training activities that maintain the line of training and add credits in the training processes of both levels; bachelor's and master's degree.
It is part of the philosophy of International Lauderdale University to provide permanent opportunities for specialization and updating to its students and graduates. The above, as part of a continuous learning model articulated with certifications and microcertifications enriched by strategic alliances with companies, industry, government and other sectors considered as an open learning environment.
