Soluciones de Aprendizaje

E-Learning – Formación a Distancia

El programa TrainForTrade está continuamente desarrollando nuevas herramientas de aprendizaje mediante la exploración de nuevas oportunidades tecnológicas. La expansión de telefonía celular ha hecho que el acceso a la información mucho más fácil. El desarrollo de aprendizaje móvil ofrece soluciones eficientes para el almacenamiento, difusión y adquisición de la información y las herramientas se pueden utilizar para promover el aprendizaje interactivo y colaborativo.

El programa TrainForTrade desarrolla cursos de alta calidad y mantiene un elevado estándar de difusión mediante el uso de medios tecnológicos, como la formación a distancia (e-learning), el aprendizaje móvil (m-learning) y cloud-learning. En muchos países en desarrollo los dispositivos portátiles son más accesibles que las PC, por lo tanto, el aprendizaje móvil puede dar más accesibilidad a los cursos de capacitación a distancia (e-learning) que una computadora.

¿Por qué la formación a distancia?

La formación a distancia ofrece a los participantes y a los formadores mayor flexibilidad en el proceso de capacitación. El acceso al conocimiento y la información puede tener lugar a través del tiempo y distancia utilizando las tecnologías diferentes. La educación a distancia permite a los alumnos:

Llevar a cabo la capacitación en su hogar o su lugar de trabajo;
Elegir el momento y lugar de aprendizaje que mejor se adapten a su situación;
Intercambiar información e ideas con formadores y compañeros de curso, independientemente de su ubicación;
Beneficiarse de apoyo continuo del equipo TrainForTrade;
Mantener contacto con el especialista en comercio internacional y otras instituciones de formación;

Combinando la formación a distancia y la formación presencial

El programa TrainForTrade combina actividades de capacitación a distancia y presencial. La experiencia demuestra que la calidad de los cursos presenciales es mayor (en términos de participación y resultados de aprendizaje de los alumnos) cuando los alumnos han sido previamente introducidos en la materia pertinente a través de un curso a distancia (e-learning).

La experiencia demuestra que los alumnos adultos con los resultados de aprendizaje son mejores en un ambiente de grupo, en comparación a cuando los alumnos están llevando a cabo actividades de formación a distancia solos. Debido a este hecho, durante los cursos de aprendizaje a distancia de TrainForTrade, los alumnos se reúnen en foros y sesiones de chat disponibles para facilitar el intercambio entre ellos y capacitadores.

El uso de las TICs como herramientas para el intercambio de conocimientos aumenta el número de beneficiarios al tiempo que reduce el costo del curso. Asimismo, el programa hace hincapi en que los aspectos pedagógicos de la formación no debe ser socavada por la tecnología.

La formación de tutores para la formación a distancia

El programa TrainForTrade hace hincapié en la importancia del desarrollo de los servicios locales para la población local realizados por la población local. Uno de los elementos esencial del programa TrainForTrade es capacitar formadores locales para facilitar y gestionar localmente la difusión de los cursos presenciales y a distancia. La identificación de un centro de formación y un tutor local es clave para tener un impacto durante la realización de los cursos. Durante el curso de formación de tutores para la formación a distancia, un tutor local aprende el proceso y la metodología para facilitar y difundir los cursos TrainForTrade a distancia.

Satisfacer las necesidades de los beneficiarios

La elección de los métodos de capacitación y la tecnología dependerá siempre de la realidad técnica en el país beneficiario. El programa TrainForTrade utiliza Moodle, un sistema de gestión de aprendizaje libre y de código abierto, basado en una plataforma Linux, con el fin de facilitar el intercambio de información y tecnología de una manera eficiente y rentable.

Blended learning methodologies for capacity development

The use of e-learning, either on its own or in a hybrid/mixed model, has not been fully explored by United Nations (UN) Secretariat entities for delivering capacity development activities. TrainForTrade contributed to the report which assesses the current state of e-learning in the economic and social entities of the UN Secretariat and identifies best practices and lessons learned in supporting capacity development through e-learning, or mixed/hybrid methods, and for adapting face-to-face trainings to the online space.

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Ejemplo de Formación a Distancia

Este es un ejemplo de una presentación multimedia en la plataforma de formación a distancia de TrainForTrade.

Testimonials

Hybrid Restitution Workshop (Jakarta December 2021)

Leapfrogging skills development in e-commerce in South-East Asia in the Framework of the 2030 Development Agenda
Some excerpts from the Golden Book are presented below:
“The workshop has been inspiring featuring several experienced experts offering some valuable insights. The shared use cases and insights about the digital identity are very relevant to my job in the area related to digital government initiatives.”
“This knowledge will be useful for me to build the similar principle in building systems and data practice within the corporation as well as public sector, e.g. building enterprise data governance as foundation to build enterprise analytics.”
“I loved the session on e-commerce especially since we handle trade and industry and we are currently promoting e-commerce and how MSMEs should go into it.”
“I like the various perspective and shared experience from the participants on the Digital identity and e-commerce. The input and feedbacks given also benefits others in implementing the digital identity framework at their countries.”
“The course really creates beautiful insights in terms of looking into different perspectives of different countries.”
“The collated insights from the use case studies and a series of discussions allowed me to appreciate the value of having well founded policies that induce harmony across the region.”

Blended learning course on International Merchandise Trade Statistics 2021

“This course helped me understand conceptual frameworks, institutional arrangements, compilation and methodology of collecting data, and how to systematically disseminate information,” said Durairaj Kumarasamy from India.
Arina Tinkova from Russia said: “The course helped me understand the processes behind the export and import values that we see in our databases.”
Ines Maria Silva Correia from Curaçao said: “I got detailed information on how to compile trade statistics and the rules to consider, such as privacy and legal issues. It was also interesting to learn how other countries produce good quality figures.”
Cynthia Aryshandy from Indonesia said: “This training provided an excellent platform to better understand IMTS and compare the practices of developing and developed nations. The participation of many countries also facilitated information exchange.”
Serrah Maria Acquita Mulipola from Samoa said: “The course contributed immensely to my knowledge and understanding of trade statistics and the importance of metadata. One challenge that we currently face in our country is limited access to information, particularly trade statistics. However, I now understand that agencies such as the customs office and the central bank always have trade statistics available at any time.”

Blended learning course on Trade in Services Statistics 2019

The following summarizes selected comments from the golden book 2019:
“Valuable experience, very related to my work. Many thanks to everyone who share in this course.”
“It was terrific! I have learned a lot. In a comprehensive point of view the face to face activity was very interesting and useful.”
“The scope of the course is comprehensive and broad, and related to my work areas. All speakers have very deep knowledge on the topics discussed. Participants were actively participating by raising questions and comments. Overall, a very good training experience. We will be further studying about the nowcast methodology and consider its possible uses during our compilations; study on the possibility on disaggregating future data according to the EBOPS classification.”

Blended learning course on International Merchandise Trade Statistics 2018

“The knowledge gained during the online course and the workshop would enable the preparation of better quality data and support to countries.”
“Keep steadfast with these training initiatives that are geared towards Member States to further increase their capacity and dynamic in this regard”.
“The course was very interesting and useful to my job. It also helped me to better understand my job and the different ways in which other countries deal with their trade data”.

Mr. Daniel J. Ndori

“The program is excellent and relevant to the developing nations. The participation of candidates from Maldives, Indonesia and Ghana enabled me to network and create an environment for future South-South interactions. Coming from an IT background, the use of an open-source platform (Moodle) for delivering this course has encouraged me to think and act in advising my CEO in adopting this platform since Tanzania ports has its own institution college (Bandari college) to train port and employees. UNCTAD’s support in conducting this course is very much appreciated and I will put what I have learned in practice.”

Mohamed Hashim

“This a very interesting program. It would be better if you conduct this training for certain region and invite participants of that region. Anyway this program will benefit our country very much from the knowledge we gained. It will be very easy for us to conduct distance learning program in the field of port management or other. We have learned enough to conduct a training program between the remote locations of the Maldives.”