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Guided by Rodrigo Arias, an English Pedagogy academic, and Furaha Henry-Jones, an expert in Afro-American literature and an academic at Sinclair College, the student body reflected on identity and its heterogeneity.
In November 2022, 26 UDP students were part, through an American Corner subject, of a COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) project, an instance that connects students and academics from different cultures, with the aim of create collaborative learning.
On this occasion, the UDP student body participated, along with 22 North Americans, in a program led by Rodrigo Arias, an English Pedagogy academic at the School of Education, and Furaha Henry-Jones, a poet, expert in Afro-American literature and a Sinclair academic. College, Ohio.
This project arose during the first semester of 2022, from the dialogue established by the academics in charge of the program. Thus, Rodrigo Arias and Furaha Herny-Jones decided to take a course to address identity, but taking a specific text as a reference: the essay How it feels to be colored me (1928), by Zora Neale Hurston.
“The main objective had to do with being able to raise awareness about the notion of identity and our differences and similarities so that, regardless of our geographical locations, the students could recognize themselves as similar, but also different, because the difference was, indeed , the richness of this COIL experience”, said Professor Rodrigo Arias regarding the program.
“That great objective was fully achieved. The concept of identity is very complex, especially when it is related to the concept of identity culture or cultural identity. In addition, it is a process that is changing. So, we come to the notion that identity is a spectrum and not something static. We use that word that is associated with colors, because as there are colors, there are identities. The results were very good. The levels of reflection were profound and are projected over time”, added the academic.
Javiera Arias, an English Pedagogy student who participated in the project, stated that this was a “totally unforgettable experience.” “I left a municipal school, where English was something for the most ‘capos’ and where meeting people from abroad, going to the United States or any English-speaking country, meant that you had won the lottery. When I entered the university I realized that the panorama was not so different, ”she commented.
“Many of us loved English and wanted to teach it in the future, however, we hadn’t had the chance to use the language to communicate with native speakers. COIL made me live this experience. Knowing my classmates and being able to communicate with them gave me great confidence in my performance as a student,” she added.
For her part, Anoek van den Berg, director of the General Directorate of International Relations, appreciated the realization of this COIL project and stated that this type of instance allows “creating ties between UDP students and international students to facilitate the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences, while using a second language and applying linguistic knowledge in an atmosphere of trust and applied”.
“These instances contribute to the global training of the student body to develop skills that are relevant when looking for a job, such as teamwork with cultural, linguistic and disciplinary diversity. In this type of instances, an exchange is generated at different levels and ties are created that usually last beyond a semester or a subject (…). This allows students to be more flexible, know how to adapt in diverse environments and learn to develop interpersonal and communication skills”, she specified.
During this 2023, the University plans to carry out different related activities such as summer and winter schools for academics and officials. In addition, during this year, a competitive fund will be launched again to finance the design of a COIL project. This, to continue promoting the internationalization of the entire university community.
This program started in 2011 and is carried out annually, between January and April.
This year, thirteen Wake Forest University students started a new edition of the UDP academic exchange program, through which its participants have the opportunity to strengthen their learning of the Spanish language, as well as experience the cultural, geographical and political diversity of South America.
The program, which is carried out annually between January and April, “also gives the possibility of assigning students to the homes of Chilean families, promoting cultural rapprochement,” explains the coordinator of Special Programs of the General Directorate of International Relations, Paola Ortúbia.
For exchange student Shannon Cummings, “it’s very exciting to get to know this culture. I don’t know the language very well, but I’m learning it every day. It’s a little hard for me to understand, because Chileans speak very fast, but when they speak slower, I can understand and pronounce the language well. Every day I learn from their culture”
Likewise, Mía Vásquez expressed that “as a student of Latin American Studies I have always been interested in coming to Chile, to South America. I am very excited to be here and realize this unique opportunity. The reason why I came is that I want to know the social atmosphere here and to know more about the people, what interests them, their ideologies”.
For the UDP, meanwhile, “receiving students from Wake Forest University is an opportunity to encourage and strengthen international ties of mutual benefit for both institutions,” says Paola Ortubia.
To date, there are already 151 students from the North American university who have completed this international exchange program at UDP.
Last Friday, the Faculty of Administration and Economics of UDP received the prominent Italian economist Emanuele Felice, as a result of the collaboration carried out by the Embassy of Italy in Chile, the Italian Institute of Culture in Chile, Iulm University, General Directorate of International Relations UDP, FAAD and the Directorate of Links with the Environment and Internationalization FAE UDP.
During the day, faculty and students shared with the author of the books “The Conquest of Rights, An Idea of History” (Bologna, 2022) and “Economic History of Happiness” (Barcelona, 2020), a conversation in relation to economic development, happiness and rights.
The professor of economic policy at the Iulm University of Milan, and visiting fellow of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, shared his vision regarding economic development, ethics and happiness and his link with the historical affirmation of human rights and the liberalism.
The conversation included the participation of OCEC researchers, academics from the Department of Economics and Administration of the FAE UDP and authorities from the Italian community and the Italian embassy in Chile and UDP executives.
The event was chaired by the dean of the FAE UDP, Mauricio Villena, who was accompanied by Carolina del Campo dean (i) of the FAAD and Anoek Van Den Berg, general director of International Relations (RRII) UDP, the coordinator of RRII of the FAAD, Bárbara Pino and the director of relations with the media and internationalization of the FAE UDP, Julie Kim.
The Collaborative Online International Learning project was carried out in conjunction with the University of Girona and was led by the academic Felipe Kong.
Between October and December 2022, more than 30 second-year students of Basic Education Pedagogy from the Diego Portales University were part of the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project, carried out in conjunction with the University of Girona (UdG), from Catalonia .
Felipe Kong, academic in charge of the project, commented that, for him, “the learning of the COIL project is mediated by an enriching experience and that, in addition, it is perceived (by all) as an opportunity to broaden the broad world view and dynamic. It is a reflection that I make in light of the process lived, from a somewhat confusing beginning to a profound conclusion full of virtues for the professional and personal life of our students. The foregoing, considering the importance of the role that teachers play in this new world”.
For Catherine Rebolledo, one of the UDP students who participated in the project, the experience was enriching: “I appreciate it as a great opportunity to strengthen and enrich my training as a future teacher. I learned a lot regarding the pedagogy perspective that is held in Girona and it was a great impact for me to have to make the planning of classroom dynamics more flexible. I think these experiences have a lot of potential, beyond the academic. I also had the opportunity, thanks to my colleagues from Girona, to get to know a little about their culture, since each session showed us a little about Catalonia”.
Julia Marfán, director of Pedagogy in Elementatary Education UDP, summarized the importance of the project in three points:
“First of all, the possibility that our students can connect and share their vision of pedagogy, their teaching vocation, their focus on issues that were discussed in this experience, such as environmental issues and sustainability, with students who are also studying pedagogy, who are also interested in deepening and critically reflecting on these themes that are transversal and universal, that are in another country like Spain. This is an experience that has infinite value, which has to do with looking globally at the problems that society wants education, and elementary education, to take charge of: both the training of future teachers, as well as in the professional development that they are going to do with the boys, girls and children at the schools.
Second, it offers us the opportunity to generate an international experience that is consistent and accessible to the reality of our students and that allows us to spread the impact to more studen. In an international exchange, which is, without a doubt, a very interesting experience, the number of students from our degree who can access it is very low, instead, here we are talking about a course group where more than 30 students who are living that experience not only during the formal class, but also on digital platforms, such as Instagram, where they connected and could continue sharing aspects and deepening topics about being a teacher, a teacher in Santiago de Chile, and in Girona, Spain, which went much further. of the class content.
The third important aspect is to live an experience that demonstrates the pedagogical and didactic use of platforms, technologies and social networks. Clearly, social networks, ICTs, are a tool that is present today in the daily life of all young people and all students here, in Girona, anywhere in the world. Being able to offer a learning experience, which also has a didactic and pedagogical approach in that the tool is a platform like Zoom, allows it to give meaning and added value to the professional training experience of our students so that they can replicate what with their students in basic schools and connect, perhaps, with other regions and territories of our country, where there are cultural diversities”.
COIL is a pedagogical methodology that allows for a virtual exchange within a subject and adds an international focus within the course formation. This project was nominated to the General Directorate of International Relations by Kong, who received the Fund for the Internationalization of Learning Processes: “The award of this project allowed us to organize the tasks and have a clear schedule to advance towards the proposed objectives. It is necessary to indicate and thank that they always supported us and there was a constant monitoring of the work carried out. We also value the autonomy granted to deal with issues. We think of continuing to participate and expand our experience in this pedagogical model”, concluded the teacher.
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The DGRRII convenes jointly with the Directorate of General Eduational Training and English to present proposals to teach four new courses in English starting in 2023 at UDP.
The UDP General Eduation provides students with tools to critically analyze and reflect on the central questions of their time, question the certainties, methods and domains of certain fields of knowledge, and integrate knowledge that transcends the limits of their respective disciplines in order to address complex problems from a transdisciplinary approach, ensuring respect for the pluralism of ideas and life paths.
An important part of the value of these courses is the reasoned dialogue between students from different disciplines locally, and international students who are styding abroad at the University. In addition to being open to people of different cultural backgrounds, this training offer thus promotes the internationalization of the undergraduate curriculum. Within this framework, the Directorate of General Training, in agreement with American Corner and the General Directorate of International Relations of the UDP, invites teachers to teach general training courses in English for the 2023 academic year on the topics of: Indigenous Population in Chile and the Americas, Environment and Sustainable Development, Solar Energy Systems in Chile, Doing Business in Latin America.
For more details and application information, please visit this link.
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The École Spéciale des Travaux Publics, founded in 1891 in France, is an engineering school specializing in construction and has a six-hectare open campus on the outskirts of Paris. Due to the fact that its students must spend a semester abroad, the campus recently promoted a program of agreements with universities in other countries where Chile and the Diego Portales University appear as strategic links to work with.
It is in this context that the professor and director of the School of Civil Engineering, Hernán Alcayaga, visited the French University. In the place he found a school equivalent to the UDP in Civil Engineering, a private university accredited by the French State that seeks to promote the internationalization of its students, who can spend a semester outside of France or do their graduation project at a foreign institution.
Professor Hernán Alcayaga was optimistic after the meeting with the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP) and mentioned that the possibility of students coming to the University and carrying out an internship in French companies that maintain ties with the PDU. However, this link will continue to strengthen when the French school visits the UDP between November 22 and 25.
Regarding this agreement, Carlos Vega, a member of the ESTP internationalization team, pointed out: “They do not have any partner in Chile, so they are seeking to generate ties and bridges, given that their students have to spend a semester abroad. . Also, it would be ideal to send a teacher to do a course there or vice versa. Those are the exploration guides for future cooperation.”
This connection will allow the UDP to delve into a fundamental aspect, such as the degree specialties in the area, where the École has a network of nearly 130 research professors and 10 research laboratories. Likewise, the ESTP has 14 specialty options in its degree, in which Smart City, Construction 4.0, Building Information Modeling, Construction and Sustainable Cities stand out.
In that area, Alcayaga pointed out: “They offer some new and interesting specialties and we are considering to look for a joint agreement. We have a project, which is promoted by the Dean to generate some new specializations in our School. We are precisely aiming at very innovative things like these that they have at the École”, commented the teacher.
This and other agreements are part of the work of the General Directorate of International Relations, which already counts more than 100 student cooperation and mobility agreements, being visited by more than 300 international academics and making the UDP find itself inserted in university networks of quality through a series of instances and agreements, the most relevant being the double degree agreements at doctoral level and cooperation and research agreements.
The Center for Studies in Human Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (CENHN) UDP and the University of Indiana-Bloomington (USA), are jointly teaching a Social Neuroscience course, in which undergraduate and graduate students from the Faculty of Psychology participate, who share a global classroom with students from Indiana.
Alejandra Rossi, researcher at CENHN UDP, faculty at the Faculty of Psychology and one of the instructors of the course, refers to the main objectives of the project, “The objectives are several. First, that our students have the experience of sharing a classroom with students from another university in a defined and outlined learning context, which is that of Social Neuroscience”.
Along with this, the academic highlights the experience of sharing a classroom with classmates from Indiana University Bloomington, bringing them closer to the discussion about which Neuroscience issues are global, which are more particular, context-dependent, among others. “This course apart from the classes, includes several discussion sessions, where all these topics become very relevant. In addition, in the discussions they can interact with small groups and talk about articles related to the course”, adds Alejandra.
Regarding the benefits of working in a global classroom modality, Alejandra Rossi comments, “it is tremendously enriching, not only in terms of content, but also regarding the discussion sessions that the course has. It exposes them to diverse ways of understanding psychological phenomena, with a critical and culturally diverse posture”.
On Friday, October 28, the first session of the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project was held at the Faculty of Education of the Diego Portales University. This project was submitted to the General Directorate of International Relations by the academician Felipe Kong, who received the Fund for the Internationalization of Learning Processes to develop it jointly with the University of Girona (UdG), from Catalonia.
COIL is a pedagogical approach that allows for a virtual exchange within a subject and adds an international focus within the training of the course. This project will be carried out by around 30 second year Pedagogy students in Basic General Education from the UDP and 14 male and female students from the European university.
From the UDP, in addition to Felipe Kong, the person in charge of the course will be Professor Felipe Calderón, coordinator of the COIL project, while his peer from Spain will be Professor Marta Gual Oliva. “The objective of the project is to make this virtual exchange within the COIL project that the university has and make these students live the experience of knowing other realities. While the pandemic confined us, it also allowed us to develop tools that allow us to cross physical borders. Now we can perfectly do this project through Zoom or other platforms,” said Calderón.
“The important thing is that they are able to live the experience of meeting students from another region, from another country, and that they can see that both are training as teachers and both may have the same problems, the same obstacles and that they themselves can start to develop and generate instances and tools that allow them to solve these obstacles that they face in their teacher training”, added the coordinator of the COIL project.
The course will be given over a month and will consist of researching problematic issues on migration and/or the environment from the pedagogical field. The students of both countries will work asynchronously and autonomously, that is, without the explicit instructions of their tutors and agreeing with each other. This work will be exposed through Instagram, where the dissemination of the research carried out will be exposed and shares. Finally, on December 2, the courses will meet again and present the conclusions of their results. Both UDP and UdG students will receive a certificate for their participation in this virtual exchange.
With a “Good morning Chile, good afternoon Spain”, due to the difference of five hours that exists between the countries, Kong presented the project to the class, which was divided into the Portalian student body in room 302 of the Faculty of Education and Professor Gual’s pupils connected via Zoom. “I am very excited to see what will happen. Despite the distance, I already feel a climate of desire to see the results that we are going to have”, commented the academic.
“The biggest challenge is being able to make the technological adjustment, where face-to-face and virtual use, at the same time, has been complex. We believe that perhaps the issue of the time difference could eventually create some inconveniences, but we are going to adapt and, for now, everything has worked well. Especially, what we wanted is that they could communicate, share, argue and exchange about ways of life that we have both in Chile and in Girona”, said Kong at the end of the session.
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The program is aimed at students from all over the world. Those selected will be able to participate in a 12-week internship, under the supervision of Canadian academics.
With the application of eight students from our institution, Diego Portales University began to participate in the first selection phase of the Mitacs-Canada Global Research Internship program.
Among the candidates, students from the faculties of Medicine, Psychology, Law and Social Sciences and History stand out. However, only two will be able to access the program, since the quotas are distributed among applicants from all over the world.
This opportunity arose after, in 2021, the Internationalization Commission of the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (CRUCH) signed an agreement with Mitacs-Canada.
Anoek van den Berg, Director General of International Relations UDP, pointed out that Mitcas is a program that, promoted by the Canadian government, is “a leader in the area of articulation between universities and companies.” And she added that “it is an honor to be part of this pilot version in Chile through CRUCH, where we are part of a select group of 6 universities that started in this new program between Chile and Canada.”
“Programs like Mitacs is an example of how we can implement concrete mechanisms that allow undergraduate students to access research opportunities abroad at prestigious universities worldwide. Apart from the traditional exchange, there are multiple alternatives for our students to globalize their academic training and develop skills with an international, intercultural and global focus”, she said.
Since its foundation in 1999, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship has helped different organizations achieve their goals, financing innovation projects and providing job opportunities for students and postdocs.
Specifically, this initiative allows students from countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, France and Germany, among others, to participate in a 12-week research internship in topics related to science, engineering, mathematics, humanities and social sciences. This, under the supervision of Canadian academics.
The UDP applicants must go through a rigorous selection process that includes a round of interviews with possible academic tutors. Accordingly, the results of the call are expected to be available in the coming months.
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En la medición británica participaron 197 universidades, de las cuales 30 son chilenas. La casa de estudios se ubicó en el puesto 55° del listado general y a nivel nacional se mantiene entre los primeros 16 lugares en las dimensiones de docencia, investigación, citaciones e ingresos provenientes de la industria.
El ranking Times Higher Education Latin America mide año a año a las mejores universidades de la región de América Latina y el Caribe. Se basa en los mismos indicadores de desempeño que THE World University Rankings, pero recalibra sus ponderaciones para reflejar las características de los planteles locales, los cuales son evaluados en todas sus misiones principales: enseñanza, investigación, transferencia de conocimiento y perspectiva internacional.
En su versión 2022, recientemente publicada, participaron 197 universidades, de las cuales 30 son chilenas. En el ranking general, la Universidad Diego Portales se posicionó en el puesto 55° de mejores universidades de Latinoamérica y como el segundo mejor plantel privado de Chile, después de la Universidad de Los Andes.
En el análisis por dimensión, la UDP se mantuvo entre los primeros 16 lugares de universidades chilenas tanto en docencia (12°), como en investigación (16°) y perspectiva internacional (6°). Mientras que en el ámbito de citaciones se ubicó en el top 10 a nivel latinoamericano (10° lugar), 4° a nivel nacional y 3° entre las privadas.
También fue relevante la mejora de su rendimiento a nivel latinoamericano en investigación, donde ocupó el puesto 78°, cuatro lugares más arriba que el puntaje logrado en 2021 (82°). Mientras que en la dimensión de mide los ingresos provenientes de la industria para la transferencia de conocimiento, la universidad se mantuvo en el lugar 23° a nivel nacional y se ubicó 7° entre las universidades privadas.
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