Self-Development on Campus: A Case Study on MIL Development in Teacher Education in Colombia

• Autores: Tomás Durán Becerra, Gerardo Machuca
• Localización: MIL Cities and MIL Citizens: Informed, Engaged, Empowered by Media and Information Literacy (MIL) / coord. por Alton Grizzle, Maarit Jaakkola, Tomás Durán Becerra, 2021, ISBN 978-958-763-502-7, págs. 189-204
• Idioma: inglés
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  • To address the human capital and education challenges of today’s societies, Colombia needs to traincitizens capable of generating changes in a globalized society where information and media are key.A research project aimed at providing MIL training to teachers was proposed by the CorporaciónUnificada Nacional de Educación Superior (Unified National Corporation of Higher Education) - CUN,a representative educational actor that provides access to tertiary education at a national level(both online and face-to-face). The objective of the project was to improve actions regarding theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and strengthen knowledge networks among actors involvedin training processes in different regions of the country that have been affected by years of violence.This article reports a case study on a first-time experience launched in 2017. The experience aimed toestablish—through the application of a mixed approach online survey—the potential and limitationsof MIL on the different university campuses and respond to the training needs of teachers throughthe design of an MIL teacher training course. The results showed that MIL has numerous possibilitiesin the regions in terms of individuals’ self-development and teacher qualification. Although thesurveyed teachers were unaware aware of this, their answers demonstrated skills related to MIL. Thisindicates that increasing MIL teacher training at the university level can result in better organizationalculture and better teaching practices among the CUN community. Currently, these first analysisoutcomes are being applied in the Bogotá campus to create an MIL training course and formulatean MIL institutional policy.