(1518) INNOVATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL INNOVATION COMPETENCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE BETWEEN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA

摘要

This paper describes an international collaborative experience of developing and piloting an online training course targeted to professors of Latin America Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), on the topics of Social Innovation and active learning methods. To this end, a Teacher′s Training Course (TTC), targeted to Higher Education professors of Latin America was designed as a capacity building strategy towards the redesign of academic curriculum in Latin American universities. The course aimed at facilitating the transfer of knowledge about Social Innovation concepts and practices and about adequate active teaching and learning approaches. The TTC was developed and piloted in 2018, as a joint effort of European and 10 Latin America HEIs, under the scope of the Erasmus+ project “Students4Change”, therefore enabling the sharing of knowledge about different aspects and experiences of Social Innovation across different countries. The course development was followed by a pilot edition of the TTC that included 8 online webinars and a face-to-face workshop, engaging 51 professors from 10 Latin America HEIs. This paper presents the international collaboration experience and the methodological process of development of the TTC, offering several contributions for the development of curricula innovation for education in Social Innovation. The paper presents a discussion about the nature of the challenges associated with education for Social Innovation in Higher Education, while presenting process of joint international development of the TTC, and a discussion about the course contents, methods and pilot results.