The serious challenges facing the College Present

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Summary

Universities in the case of Venezuela we are concerned, is facing at present, serious challenges that must be taken into account in order to give way to actions, changes, transformations, to ensure their operability, performance, according to the needs that the current national scene faces, showing turbulence with a lot of uncertainty, risk, product of political instability, especially for the actions, plans generated by the current government, many improvised, which aims to establish the so-called XXI Century Socialism.

General considerations, annotations

Universities require a restructuring not only in their structures, systems, academic, administrative, but also in its social responsibility, giving the country the skilled professionals able to face the challenges, changes and rescue generate academic excellence in recent years has declined significantly.

It is necessary to transform the curriculum of some courses and update them according to the requirements that the present application, define the profile of the teacher is required, skills, knowledge required to successfully perform its function of teaching modern, fully identified with the scope, impact of the knowledge society demands as well as appropriate use of new technologies, communication tools, information technology (ICT) media.

Dr. Armando Martin gives us Ibarra Lopez, to consider in the current scenario, which says (Latapí, 2007) that "The country's universities are living difficult transitions. The demographic and social pressures, political demands, anxieties budget, the cultural and educational changes and especially the challenges of national and international economy, the overwhelming and face decisions any easier. The required quality, are forced to modernize, to be efficient, to produce the tables required by the market to develop an entrepreneurial culture, to innovate in their teaching methods and management processes to assess and accredit on solid foundations, and are proposing the "knowledge society" as the paradigm of the future obligation: if knowledge is - and will be increasingly, the backbone of globalized economies, it is for educational systems and universities mainly produce, supply and distribute that knowledge indispensable.

The fact that reality forces us as highlighted Román Mayorga, the importance of the teacher effectively use the new technological means, as well as to scientific and technological research of high quality; link universities with business; Solving the problem university funding, contribute to Latin American integration, and does well traditional university functions.

Universities in the modern challenges, you must also. As we mentioned be well prepared to play its role with respect to the knowledge society.

Precisely to achieve this, we must take into account as you said Dr. Armando Martín Ibarra Lopez, that the production of knowledge has changed its processes, requiring work teams coordinated by networks with clear objectives and efficiently coordinated for productivity unthinkable. The research overturns the way they do and to generate knowledge, researchers from different disciplinary areas, increasingly favor the applicability of knowledge and development of technology to solve production problems, quality or efficiency.

It is a fact that there have been new challenges. Where a new type of institution is principally involved in this phenomenon. These knowledge communities: networks of individuals whose goal is the production and circulation of new knowledge that relate to individuals and institutions belonging to different identities even rivals, such as companies, universities and governments

Of course, we know also that universities also have had to change his vocation to be in tune with this trend, the production of knowledge has changed its processes, we need coordinated teams in networks with clear objectives and efficiently coordinated looking for products unthinkable. The research overturns the way they do and to generate knowledge, researchers from different disciplinary areas, increasingly favor the applicability of knowledge and development of technology to solve production problems, quality or efficiency.

It seems that the productive generation of knowledge, the above understanding, use and teaching.

On the other hand, is much needed new challenges, consider the role of the technological transformation of university pedagogy, with its processes of distance education and online, which believes that every individual learns by doing and intervening and solving problems, with the possibility to assess what they have learned and improve your skills later. This certainly is a form of knowledge production that can be extremely effective in the formation of many professions.

However, comments that there are a large number of Venezuelan universities to new challenges, which lack the infrastructure and technological resources that continues to teach and preparing educational professionals with old forms, as well as universities are a number of criteria low academic quality, which flourish in different parts of the country, constituting an important group of institutions of higher education, some public sector actors speak of more than 1,000 that are outside the scope of knowledge generating university and this is seriously affecting higher education in the country.

You can not ignore also the fact that the World Bank says (2003), the University in short, to new challenges, is being questioned about the direction they are taking the actions of university groups, the steps of the institutions to the growth of infrastructure, the projects are highly dependent on funding, and promotion of institutional mechanisms for many countries whose usefulness is questionable, inviting us to rethink the vocation of effective university agenda is needed. (World Bank, 2003)

Conclusion

Faced with new challenges, do not forget that exposes Luengo (2003), which is necessary to develop teaching from new ways of carrying out, facilitating dialogue "between the different knowledge of the sciences and the humanities; transit knowledge and skills of the discipline of interdisciplinary experience to reach the vision of transdisciplinarity.

The university must assume that learning is not limited to their spaces, but on the contrary, it should show the university community that is learning all the time available everywhere you want to learn, this will be prepared to the scope, challenges this claim.

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