The pandemic demonstrated that the educational system is not fully prepared for online education, and I am not referring to technology or internet access. Many virtual classrooms maintained a conventional format where teachers lectured on a screen-whiteboard while students listened and/or watched. This practice usually prioritizes...Read More
En el primer trimestre del año 2022, se ha evidenciado una gran cantidad de conflictos laborales, tanto en la administración pública como en la privada; este detonante social es un indicador para visibilizar la convivencia laboral como un espacio prioritario en la resolución de conflictos. El conflicto es constante y está presente en la vida...Read More
A 3 años de pandemia y con la llamada “nueva normalidad” cada día más vigente, nos encontramos ante un escenario donde la mayor parte de las empresas han finalizado esta fase del denominado “teletrabajo”, concepto bajo el cual se realizaba una actividad laboral de forma no presencial, en la cual los trabajadores desempeñan sus responsabilidades...Read More
On the afternoon of April 28, the presentation of the book “Derecho Procesal Penal: Aspectos Probatorios” (Criminal Procedure Law: Evidentiary Aspects) took place in an event organized by the Attorney General's Office (FGE) and the Universidad Espíritu Santo (UEES). On behalf of the FGE, Beatriz Rodriguez, national director of Criminal Studies of the FGE, participated in the event....Read More
Este jueves 28 de abril a las 10h de la mañana se realizó, en la plazoleta central de la UEES, una ceremonia en donde recordaremos los impactos de la pandemia del COVID-19. Una vez que el 100% de nuestros estudiantes, profesores, administrativos y empleados en general tienen sus dosis completas de vacunación, que nuestros estudios...Read More
The online classes resulting from the pandemic made me reflect on my role as a teacher; I thought that if students were already spending all day online, what could I offer them that they wouldn't find on Wikipedia? Conventional wisdom says: “if you can't fight the enemy, join him”. Well, I have dedicated...Read More
La administración del sector público debería ser un honor, sin embargo, vemos como en los últimos años se ha vuelto un caos en muchos casos. ¿Realmente se necesita conocer el sector público para administrarlo bien? Esta pregunta un tanto trillada y desgastada es muy común en las conversaciones entre amigos y opinólogos; tomaré posición, mi...Read More
Cada año, el avance tecnológico pone a disposición de las empresas equipos, herramientas y dispositivos vanguardistas que transforman la manera de producir; permitiendo ganar eficiencia y productividad. A pesar de esto, la demanda de trabajo sigue siendo considerable en los diferentes sectores, en donde, las exigencias físicas y mentales de las tareas tienen tal magnitud...Read More
Humans have made enormous progress in understanding physical reality by understanding the laws that govern the behavior of nature. However, we are far from understanding the nature of our intellectual capabilities. The first questions about whether a machine can come to think were raised by the...Read More
As teachers, we must connect the science of learning - how the brain learns - with classroom practices for all students. Much of what experts have shared about neuroscience has been done in the last 5 to 10 years. Therefore, anyone who has not been trained in the last few years will not...Read More
En el ámbito empresarial, estamos acostumbrados a realizar la selección de personal que básicamente consiste en escoger a la persona más idónea para un puesto de trabajo. Esta actividad es realizada directamente por la empresa o una agencia reclutadora que realice esta labor. No obstante, existen cargos que son complicados de conseguir o tenemos personas...Read More
El Scimago Institutions Rankings (SIR) es una clasificación de instituciones académicas y relacionadas con la investigación clasificadas por un indicador compuesto que combina tres conjuntos diferentes de indicadores basados en el rendimiento de la investigación, los resultados de la innovación y el impacto social medido por su visibilidad en la web. En el Ranking SCImago...Read More
I may not speak for all teachers, but the thought of returning to in-person teaching in the very near future fills me with a new sense of hope. Don't get me wrong. The last two years of teaching online have been a unique opportunity not just to discover and embrace technological tools, but also to...Read More
The Ecolodge/glamping has become an architectural alternative to the existing tourist diversification that seeks to provide sustainable lodging. Ecotourism in Ecuador is a catapult to international tourism, since it is considered as a “destination to discover” of high potential, due to the innumerable areas of attraction and cultural diversity, ethnic, customs that...Read More
El objeto de central de este convenio es cooperar mutuamente en la realización de actividades tendientes a coadyuvar a la consolidación del sistema de administración de justicia en el Ecuador. Hoy se realizó la firma de convenio de cooperación con la Corte Nacional de Justicia del Ecuador. El objetivo es cooperar mutuamente en la realización...Read More
Student exchanges are a great opportunity to open ourselves to the world, build relationships and live new adventures. Mónica Ordóñez, a current UEES student, is doing an exchange in Halifax, Canada. In this episode, she talks to us about the benefits of this experience, and the differences between the methodology and the...Read More
An alluvium is a mass movement in which debris (loose soil), rock and organic matter sometimes combine with water to form a paste that flows downhill rapidly (Highland & Bobrowsky, 2008). There are triggering effects for these landslides to be generated, being: precipitation, earthquakes, landslides,...Read More
In the current conditions that the citizens of the world live in, where the pandemic, the imminent war, and world conflicts, lead us to seek new options for tourism, investment and work in unconventional nations, it is necessary to turn on our global radar to look for alternatives not previously thought of. It is important to try to include in our...Read More
Two years after the beginning of the pandemic, the question arises: how many companies have performed a self-assessment of how good or bad their risk management has been; there have been many changes within the organizations, among which we can highlight: internal processes, people, areas, technology, information management - digitalization, way of...Read More
