JAVIER BELTRAN
DIANNE RIVERA
PAOLA ROJAS
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Gustavo A Yepes López
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1. The program proposes to achieve, in these sectors, education at the levels of competence and quality that the national benchmarks of the Ministry of Education have planned for academic development in each one of the levels, cycles and school grades.
2. Aware of the efforts made by this population to achieve levels of improvement in their quality of life, with the help of education as a fundamental element that contributes to the solution of society's problems, peace generates greater growth for the country, and particularly, for young people, adults and seniors who from the corners of Colombia, wish, dream, like every Colombian, with a country in peace
The idea was created by Esperanza Trujillo de Castiblanco with the goal to implement the "SIVE" Program (Interactive Virtual Educational System) in 2014, for the Municipalities of the Cundinamarca Department. The application is an educational innovation, unique in the country, designed for Android Operating System that downloads the study material from the educational platform of the Colegio Virtual to the Tablet and save the scores of the tests that the student develops. In addition, it saves the workshops and activities that will be checked by the teacher. Once the students connect again to the Internet, they can send all the scores, workshops and activities they developed while he was disconnected to the Moodle educational platform, from there the teacher will be able to follow up the work done by the student and evaluate the workshops and activities that the students have submitted.
The original idea as Diana mentions in the interview "was created from the need of the soldiers of Colombia to continue their studies and also to serve the population, rural, peasant and the population victim of the Colombian conflict."
The motivation or purpose to realize this innovation was to want to help this population to complete their educational goals in a flexible way, having in mind that they have difficulties to access a common education
The social impact is a contribution that has benefited the soldiers, elderly and peasants of limited resources located in the different Municipalities of the Cundinamarca Department, since 4 years ago has allowed them to have access to continuing education in order to complete their studies in a virtual mode with a face-to-face and continuous accompaniment by teachers who follow-up with visits, going to different places in transport of unusual use such as horse, donkey and truck
The benefit to the company is originated by the contracts assigned by the Department of Cundinamarca and the Secretary of Education and through these contracts the operational income is generated, they have 50 employees, their annual income is estimated on average at 25% of profit, in average, considering that the contracts between 2017 y 2018 on average were signed by $565.000.000 colombian currency
It allowed to strengthen all the personnel in the Tics, training as educators with new technological tools applied to education. Reduction of the use of paper and single use materials such as notebooks, books and pencils.
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DIANA CASTIBLANCO TRUJILLO, General Manager
Within its mission, it proposes to offer a quality education that guarantees the formation of integral people, who participate in the development of the communities of the region and the country in order to consolidate a long lasting peace. In this case, the school takes the development of a Flexible Educational Model for Special Integrated cycles in Assisted Virtual mode, directed at young people, adults and students of different ages who due to difficulties, have not been able to continue their educational process, in accordance with the regulations established by Decree 3011 1997. The Virtual Model has been designed, implemented, evaluated and adjusted to the needs of the population, the difference compared with other educational systems of this kind, is that provides education to peasants, people displaced by the armed conflict and people who haven't economic possibility to pay for their education, they come from sidewalks and municipalities that don't have internet access.
This initiative is connected with the current illiteracy problem in Colombia and around the world, considering that in the world exist about 781 million of illiterate adults, all this accord statistics of UNESCO. According with the 2017/8 monitoring report of education in the world , a big percent of the adult´s population has not complete all basic education in low and middle income countries, and isn´t probable that these people return to primary school to complete the basic education.
In Colombia, accord the National Ministry of Education´s development plan, 5.8% of the population, it means, 1.959.000 Colombians, don´t know how to read or write.
Considering the previously referenced, S.I.V.E connects directly with the purpose of the UNESCO, about the literacy in the digital era, enrolled in the educational 2030 agenda, bearing in mind that the new technologies of information a communication provide huge opportunities to amplify the literacy and to improve the index, also for generate more recognition of the literacy value. So, in the monitoring report of education in the world 2015, the mobile phones, tablets and other communication technologies are proposed as excellent tools to improve the literacy index.