Maira Dolores Vélez-Loor's scientific contributions

The reflection article has as a purpose to analyze competency-based learning as a possibility for curricular rearrangement during school emergency by COVID-19 in Ecuador. A bibliographic review of research published in peer-reviewed journals was generated in order to know the scope of the competency-based learning and how this could contribute to the formation of a curricular design that reorients the educational process in Ecuador. It is intended that the students could be formed to get involved in learning throughout their life, in a self-directed way and could even be considered self-taught, which, accompanied by research, will allow generating complex competences for the construction of solutions to the multiple problems faced in everyday life. In this way, they will perceive the need to transcend the cognitive model to that of active learning, making educational design possible based on the pillars of the competency-based learning. Descriptors: Active learning; practical work (learning method); life skills; skills development. (Words taken from the UNESCO Thesaurus).

The objective of the research is to analyze the virtual didactic resources planned for the approach of educational projects in natural sciences during period of confinement by COVID-19. A non-experimental descriptive type work was generated, with a population made up of 30 teachers and a sample of 6 teachers who met the inclusion criteria at San Francisco Sales School, located in the Province of Manabí-Ecuador. The results were approached from these areas: audiovisual teaching resources in social networks, virtual classrooms, learning method, and natural science platforms. The virtual didactic resources projected by the teachers to be implemented in the educational project of natural sciences, are ideal to promote significant learning in students, however, it is necessary to have a training process for both teachers and

The objective of the research was based on analyzing active pedagogy and its impact on the emotional competencies of high school students in the province of Manabí. It was of a cross-sectional correlational descriptive type with a non-experimental design; the population consisted of 84 high school students. The active pedagogy (PA) is positively correlated in 0.058 with the emotional competences (CE), being necessary to deepen by the teachers. When the research variables are positively related, a favorable perception is conceived by the students about the performance of the teachers in order to promote a comprehensive education where the emotional and academic are combined, promoting a person capable of addressing the different challenges to which he faces due to an assertive management of his behavior.

El artículo de reflexión tiene el propósito de presentar los resultados del análisis realizado en torno a la educación por competencias como posibilidad reordenadora del currículo en emergencia escolar por COVID-19 en el Ecuador. Se generó una revisión bibliográfica de investigaciones publicadas en revistas arbitradas con la finalidad de conocer el alcance de la educación por competencias y como esta podría contribuir en la conformación de un diseño curricular que reoriente el proceso educativo en el Ecuador. Se persigue que el estudiante se forme para aprender un aprendizaje a lo largo de su vida, de modo auto dirigido y hasta podría considerarse autodidacta, lo cual acompañado de por la investigación, permitirá generar competencias complejas para la construcción de soluciones a los múltiples problemas a los cuales se enfrenta en la cotidianidad. Percibiéndose la necesidad de transcender del modelo cognitivo al de aprendizaje activo, posibilitándose el diseño educativo en base a los pilares de la educación por competencias.

La investigación tiene por objetivo analizar los recursos didácticos virtuales planificados para el abordaje de proyectos educativos de ciencias naturales en período de confinamiento por COVID-19. Generándose un trabajo de tipo descriptivo no experimental, con una población conformada por 30 docentes de la Unidad Educativa San Francisco Sales, ubicado en la Provincia de Manabí-Ecuador, siendo la muestra constituida por 6 docentes quienes cumplieron con los criterios de inclusión. Los resultados se abordaron desde las áreas: Recursos didácticos audiovisuales en redes sociales, Aulas virtuales, Método de aprendizaje, Plataformas de ciencias naturales. Los recursos didácticos virtuales proyectados por los docentes para ser implementados en el proyecto educativo de ciencias naturales, son idoneos para promover un aprendizaje significativo en los estudantes, sin embargo, es necesario contar con un proceso de capacitación tanto para profesores como discentes con la finalidad de evitar inconvenientes que perjudiquen el aprendizaje, así como el rendimiento escolar.