STUDYING
SIU-Guaraní Student Self-Management System.
The purpose of this system is to provide a tool to the university students and the Academic Units that allows them to access anywhere via Internet and carry out actions such as:
- Registration for exams and courses.
- Re-enrollment in career.
- Consultation of credits.
- Registration consultation.
- Consultation of study plan and academic history.
- Consultation of the schedule of partial evaluations.
- Partial evaluation notes.
- Regular subjects.
- Class agenda.
- Request for certificates.
- Update of census data.
- Receive messages.
Undoubtedly, this possibility of accessing information and carrying out some administrative procedures, avoiding unnecessary transfers of the person, means to streamline administrative processes in general providing a safer environment and improving the quality of the information obtained.
Central Implementation Team
Information Technology and Communications Department
General Secretary for Planning
What is Unne-Virtual?
The UNNE-Virtual Program was created by Resolution No. 185/01-CS. Originally, it was aimed at complementing the pedagogical actions of the various Academic Units.
Over time, the strengthening and expansion of the action lines have shaped it as a Central Program of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste University which depends on the General Academic Secretariat of the Rectorate. It is currently articulated with the different Academic Units and with other sectors and programs implemented by the University.
Apart from being a support for face-to-face education, the virtual modality has its own identity and allows teachers, tutors, and students to become part of a learning community where interaction and communication are the most significant aspects.
The Academic General Secretary of UNNE is in charge of supervising and ruling UNNE-Virtual, which is an educational strategy based on the intensive use of information and communication technologies. The program has flexible operational structures and pedagogical methods, which allow the teaching-learning processes not to be limited or conditioned by any factor such as time, space, occupation, or age of the student.
- Strengthening and to extent the University presence in the region, decentralizing academic activities, and generating information and communication systems.
- Broadening UNNE's academic options through the elaboration, development, implementation, and evaluation of alternative educational modes of learning which allow the expansion and complementation of its coverage at provincial, regional, national and international levels.
- Strengthening the intra-institutional and inter-agency linkage by means of distance education.
- Promoting the use of ICT in academic management areas, as well as in the implementation of research and extension projects.
- Providing third parties with counseling services for the implementation of distance education options.
Specific objectives.
- To promote the use of ICT in UNNE's undergraduate, postgraduate, and research and outreach activities by means of dissemination, training, technical-pedagogical counseling, and management of UNNE-Virtual, according to the principles of equity, quality, and innovation.
- To promote research and development projects within distance education that enhance the design, advancement, and evaluation of innovative educational proposals.
- To provide training related to the educational use of ICT, teaching and evaluation methodologies, designing and adapting teaching materials, and all those dimensions involved in distance education.
- To advise and collaborate on the use of UNNE-Virtual virtual platforms and other communication and information technologies.
- To guide, on its own, or with the collaboration of other areas of UNNE, external organizations in the feasibility, design, management, administration, implementation, and evaluation of blended or virtual education proposals.
Course of action.
The following course of action is determined under the specific objectives set out:
Training
As regards this aspect, actions aimed at members and non- members of UNNE training for the use of virtual environments and ICT for educational purposes will be promoted.
It includes actions that can or cannot be in collaboration with the Academic Units, such as:
- UNNE teacher training courses to work in virtual learning environments.
- Postgraduate options in virtual environments and ICT.
- Updating and improvement in the subject courses.
Technical – pedagogical assistance.
In conjunction with the Academic Units, Institutes, or Institutions, assistance will be provided aiming at the development and implementation of technical-pedagogical innovations in face-to-face and distance education options.
It comprises:
- The designing of materials on different supports for virtual education.
- Technical-pedagogical counseling on the designing, development, and evaluation of educational innovations based on the use of ICT. It includes the use of ICT as a support or a complement to face-to-face classes, as well as its use for the implementation of complete virtual options.
- Management of virtual platforms and other technological resources typical of the modality.
Research
This guideline seeks to promote the production of knowledge in the field of distance education and the use of ICT as a pedagogical tool, based on the development of UNNE’s research projects or in collaboration with other research teams.
Communication:
The use and development of ICT in the educational field will be encouraged by the following activities:
- The dissemination of the Programme activities and the virtual modality via social and institutional means of communication.
- The organization and management of exchange spaces on the subject.
Choose what career to study is an important decision for every person’s life because is about a decision that includes many other elections. That is why the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste University looks forward to accompanying, in this complex process, to those who follow the path of higher education.
For that, the vocational occupational orientation of the university which depends on the General Secretary of University Extension offers free activities that may be fulfilled during the whole year. These activities can be developed not only in the headquarter in Resistencia (the province of Chaco) but also in Corrientes Vocational Orientation local office (capital city), and it is intended for young people and adults in all the Northeast region.
Academic program information is given in a personalized way; vocational occupational orientation processes and intensive informative workshops are delivered in order to help the applicants to find their future life projects. As well as, reorientation processes are carried out in both headquarters.
The activities are directed towards the decisions-making and to allow a profound election from everyone’s pleasure, interests, motivation, abilities, limitations, and strength.
The ones that are about to finish the latest year of the middle level, or any person of the community, can have access freely to these activities to which the informative panels are included by areas of interest in June, and to the informative workdays with Academic programs of the university during September and October in each academic unit.
Objective
Accompanying the students in the formulation of a personal project of social insertion.
Demystifying fantasies about university studies, careers, and professions.
Spread real information about free academic offer in the university.
Accompanying in the process of vocational orientation, through workshops, panels, workdays, that help the reflection about oneself and the vocational occupational reality.
Assisting in educational establishments.
Action lines
1- To provide information about admission conditions, study possibilities, extension activities, and research that are offered in each Faculty or Institute.
2- To work on orientation processes individually or in groups, so as to motivate the recognition of aptitudes, interests, and factors that make the elections depend on them.
3- To show the field experiences, labs, classes, work in the library, research, to future applicants in order to feel everyday and real-life in all the faculties.
4- To make possible direct contact with the culture of each academic unit, and in every career, in particular, getting to know the university student’s life, the healthcare services, cultural area, sports area, among others.
5- To make possible a permanent virtual communication through our “Extensión Universitaria” Facebook fan page, with its messages options, also the Department e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Activities
1- Information and Orientation
Interviews
Weekly vocational orientation, Reorientation, and/or occupational processes through Operative Groups, individually and in groups daily processes. Workshops with schools in the university: Vocational Orientation workshops “The University and your Life Project”. According to the previous settled Schedule (April and November).
Vocational Orientation panels “University Teachers and Students informing“, (July).
Information vocational workshops – Day “D” in the Faculties and Institutes of the university (September-October).
2- Vocational reorientation
Interviews / Individually or in Groups processes for students that have just begun their university studies and want to revise their elections. With a previous personal enrollment.