Problem- and Project-Based Learning for the strengthening of capacities and abilities of UNAD students: Case of the coffee and chocolate factory “El Agrario” of San Vicente de Chucurí, Santander, Colombia

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to develop methodologies, oriented towards an integral formation of students of the National University open at a distance -UNAD-, which serve as a basis for the execution of processes based on autonomous learning, aiming at an integral formation for appropriation of knowledge, based on the development of applied research activities, which promotes the improvement of quality of life in various regions of the country. For this work, a mixed methodological approach and exploratory research was adopted given the need for support required by the environment for the improvement of their processes with permanent support from academia and research. The activities were divided into phases that correspond to the inquiry, to identify elements and the existing relationships between learning strategies, and to the design of these for the courses of Degree Project, Sensory Evaluation and Biochemistry taught in the programs of Systems Engineering and Food Engineering of the UNAD. Additionally, a phase was executed where the syllabus are built, programming of practices and strategies are applied, from the linking of students in microenterprises of the sector, to support administrative management processes in the food sector