U-Training. A Framework to Create Ubiquitous Training Portals for Higher Education Teachers

Abstract

This project outlines some teacher training strategies using the information and communication technologies (ICTs) to contribute to sustainable higher educational training programmes and their role in the shift towards ubiquitous training environments. The Corporate E-Learning Centre (CELC), at Anahuac Mexico Sur University, has made some efforts to implement different approaches for training teachers in ICTs. The first approach consisted of training teachers in the collaborative learning strategy using the technology tools of a learning management system. The second approach consisted of personalised training in a controlled space and with specific tools for teachers courses. This second approach was concluded with the creation of a laboratory called CEIC lab, which has an ergonomic-didactic layout. The third approach is described in this project and unites the experiences and results of the previous two approaches. This third approach called u-training combines instructional design, e-commerce, marketing, ICTs, a metric control programme and a reward management programme to create a ubiquitous training portal so that teacher training can be available anywhere and anytime.