Twelfth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies

Abstract

This article exposes the initial results of a pedagogical experience of innovation and improvement of an ICT-based teacher-researcher training process from a complex and interdisciplinary perspective. This experience was carried out in the Technology and Interdisciplinary Research-Teaching Laboratory. Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Problem Based Learning (PBL) methods were used during the observation of a group of students and teacher-researchers in higher education who were presented with an applied research problem. The problem consisted in applying a theoretical and methodological framework known as the Knowledge Management Conceptual Model to study the performance of a series of organizations using an analysis of the Effective Social Action carried out by a sample of these organizations. In addition, a technological platform, or expert system was designed in order to capture and systematize in an automated and ubiquitous way the knowledge constructed by the academic group during the research experience. The preliminary results demonstrated the usefulness of the PAR and PBL methods to train students of higher education. The results were identified through the students’ ability to appropriate concepts, and articulate theories and methods from an interdisciplinary perspective, as well as through their dialogue and collaborative competence in multi-disciplinary groups. The tangible results are academic outputs generated by participants of the academic group in training.