In the most recent episode of Sintonía CEDDIE, Rafaela Diegoli, Academic Vice Dean of Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Pablo Andrés Torres, a faculty member from the School of Humanities and Education, delve deeply into a strategy that many of us as faculty members might not pay much attention to: the effective use of breaks. The discussion explores how these intentional pauses are an essential part of the teaching and learning process and how they can significantly enhance the educational experiences of our students.

According to our guests, breaks in the academic context are far more than simple interruptions; they are crucial intervals that allow the brain to process and absorb information. This episode touches on the potential benefits that pauses can bring to teaching methods and shares examples of their effective implementation.

For faculty, the key message is to recognize the optimal times to take a pause and how to schedule these interludes to reap the maximum benefits without disrupting the course's momentum. It highlights the need for discipline in taking the break and then refocusing when it's time to continue.

Breaks are also portrayed as acts of balance and commitment to personal care, catering to basic needs that we sometimes overlook, such as hydration. These moments of respite facilitate reconnection and ensure that the time dedicated to learning is more productive, free from distractions.

In addition to practical advice, the episode encourages starting with small steps by integrating brief breaks into classes and assessing their impact on the classroom experience, identifying the spaces where such pauses could be inserted for the benefit of your students.

Don't miss out on this enlightening conversation on Sintonía CEDDIE, designed to refine your teaching techniques and deepen student engagement. 

Listen to the episode today!

At Tecnológico de Monterrey, we are firmly convinced that academic integrity is essential for maintaining the highest standards of excellence and ethics in our institution. That is why we invite you to participate in the 2024 edition of the course "Reaffirming My Commitment to Integrity." This course not only offers interactivity and new relevant topics to strengthen integrity from our role as educators, but also provides us with the opportunity to reflect on the importance of academic honesty and its impact on the holistic development of our students. 

Your participation in this course is crucial to inspire our students to follow your example and promote a culture of integrity in our classrooms. The course will be available on Success Factors from April 1st to May 3rd. 

Let's continue educating with integrity and together build a Tec that is full of integrity! If you have any questions, please contact tecservices@servicios.tec.mx

Join our call for sharing your educational assessment practices! The Directorate of Design and Evaluation in the Educational Model, in collaboration with the Center for Teaching Development and Educational Innovation (CEDDIE), cordially invites you to participate.  Our aim is to identify and recognize the best assessment practices that enrich the Tec Educational Model.

 If you are a faculty member at Tecnológico de Monterrey and have taught training units in this model, we want to hear from you!  What do you need to do? Simply send us your assessment practice before June 30, 2024. If your practice is selected, you will have the opportunity to share it on internal platforms of the Institution and possibly in a compilation of best practices with external reach.  For more details on how to participate and the evaluation criteria, please see the requirements and guidelines below:  

• Both full-time and adjunct faculty members are eligible to participate. 
• Practices can be individual or collaborative. 
• Practices aligned with the competency-based approach of the Tec Educational Model will be particularly valued. 
• An academic committee will evaluate practices based on criteria such as authenticity, relevance of evidence, and sufficiency of information for assessing competencies. 

Click here for more information. 

We look forward to receiving your contribution and recognizing your work with a CEDDIE badge!

The "Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence" initiative at Tecnologico de Monterrey invites educators from all academic levels, from high school to postgraduate studies, to document and share the applications of AI in teaching and learning. The aim is to acquire a digital badge recognition.

The initiative, orchestrated by the Center for Teaching Development and Educational Innovation (CEDDIE), acknowledges instructors who have embraced AI tools to enhance their students' learning experiences. To date, nearly 200 digital badges have been awarded to educators who have successfully integrated this technology into their learning environments.

Illustrative examples include:

María Guadalupe Reyes García taught a course on Latin American Cultural Expressions at PrepaTec Zacatecas, where she spearheaded "Nuestras Olvidadas." This innovative project had students create comics highlighting overlooked Latin American women. Utilizing AI for illustrations, the project, showcased at the Teyolía Festival, enabled students without drawing skills to depict these women's stories creatively and diversely, underlining AI's significant role in the creative process.

Tonatiuh Najera Ruiz conducted a practical exercise in Financial Modeling and Programming at Campus Sonora Norte. Students used AI to generate code for building an investment portfolio from scratch, including data retrieval, analysis, asset selection, portfolio composition and optimization, performance measurement, and backtesting. The aim was to acquaint students with AI tools in investment to make informed financial decisions.

Víctor Manuel Jímenez Rodríguez developed a Customized Adaptive Evaluation Plan in Innovation and Business Launch at Campus Querétaro. This plan leveraged AI to tailor to students' learning preferences, identifying learning styles, adapting tests to learning progress, analyzing learning journals for personalized adjustments, using digital portfolios for content assessment, and implementing multichannel feedback to pinpoint improvement areas. AI's pivotal role was to personalize educational content and assessments, enhancing the learning experience.

CEDDIE's "Pioneers in AI" initiative is open to all faculty members, encouraging ongoing innovation in AI for education. Those interested in joining can visit the Mi Innovación Educativa platform for more information and to document their innovations.

Semana e is an initiative driven by CEDDIE since 2019, aimed at professionally connecting teachers from Tecnológico de Monterrey. This experience occurs in summer and winter, collaborating with training partners to address real issues, in order to develop and strengthen cross-cutting competencies. 

From January 29th to February 2nd, 2024, two Week e sessions were held, one in the Villa del Carbón Community in the State of Mexico and the other in Aromatics and Chemicals of the Center, in San Luis Potosí. In this edition, a total of 33 teachers from the Ciudad de México, Cuernavaca, Estado de México, Guadalajara, Hidalgo, Laguna, Monterrey, Puebla, Querétaro, and San Luis Potosí campuses participated. 55% were from the School of Engineering and Sciences, 36% from the School of Business, and 9% from the School of Humanities and Education. 

The challenges faced by our teachers during the immersion were: 

Communities of Las Moras and El Ocotal in Villa del Carbón: 

• How to reactivate the route of the Otomí community museum? 
• How to increase the market and distribution network of the Organic Artisan Market? 

Chemicals and Aromatics of the Center: 

• How can we transform organizational culture to promote an approach of innovation and agility? 
• How can we generate supply alternatives to the hypochlorite business that allow maintaining relationships with suppliers and strengthening commercial relations with current customers during times of scarcity of this raw material? 

During the week, teachers became acquainted with the challenges posed by training partners, subsequently having contact in real scenarios to experience what is done in the community and the company, as well as conducting interviews with those responsible. From this, they were able to generate initial solution ideas. 

The teachers worked with the Design Thinking methodology, guided and supported by expert facilitators, focusing on the root causes to generate solution ideas, creating a prototype to receive feedback, which allowed them to obtain a definitive proposal, presented by the teams to the training partners at the end of the week. 

"A great experience, observing their needs and offering a solution focused on them... It allows the teacher to relate to real problems that are contributing to the country's development, without being a large industry," commented Professor Adriana Erika Martinez Cantón. 

Semana e experience allows collaboration among colleagues from different disciplines, the generation of greater empathy with students in the face of challenges, and the strengthening of transversal skills.

We appreciate the participation of the instructors and facilitators: 

• Master Oscar Alberto Bojórquez Gutiérrez by campus Querétaro 
• PhD. Eder Estrada Villalba ambos by campus Querétaro. 
• PhD. Miriam Toribio Morales by campus Monterrey 
• PhD. J. Guadalupe Torres Armenta by campus San Luis Potosí 
• PhD. Norma Angélica Ruiz Servín by campus Estado de México 
• Master Georgina Raquel Bustamente Castillo by campus Estado de México 
• Bachelor degree Juan Carlos Hernández Cruz by campus Estado de México

** Traducción (se utilizó el chatbot GPT)

The Vice-Rectory for International Affairs invites the educational community to participate in the call for proposals for Global Shared Learning: Classroom (GSL Classroom) from the academic period August - December 2024, which will take place from March 1st. to April 5th, 2024, closing on 3:00 p.m. (MCT). 

The main objective of this call is to offer professors a different internationalization opportunity, and enhance their professional development through innovation and the use of technology. 

GSL Classroom is an initiative of the Vice-Rectory for International Affairs that aims to link an Educational Unit of Tecnológico de Monterrey with a course from an international partner university, through an international element, using technological tools to connect students, foster collaboration and facilitate learning in multicultural environments. This international component is included in the course of each of the participating universities, partially or totally, and its length can be extended throughout the course or applied to a specific module or topic with a minimum duration of four weeks. 

• By implementing the COIL Methodology, faculty and students will be able to experience internationalization, collaborative work, and the development of meaningful interactions with international peers.

For more information click on: https://tec.mx/en/internacionalization/global-classroom-call 

Informative session   

• March 19th, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. (MCT). 

Register here. 

Enlace de registro a la sesión informativa: https://itesm.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctde6sqj8uHdAPrWUdxT9jkzyHe7VigIqb#/registration  Correo de contacto para dudas:  tecglobalclassroom@itesm.mx

VOCES started in 2019 as Human Dignity Week, organized by the Vice Presidency of Inclusion, Social Impact and Sustainability, through the Center for Recognition of Human Dignity, in which through cycles of conferences, conversations and workshops seek to develop awareness, empathy and co-responsibility on major issues linked to human dignity.

Since 2023 we evolve into VOCES, with the intention remark the necessity of meeting point where all the voices are represented, hear and respect, in order to develop in our community awareness of the diversity of their environment, and interested in working for equity and inclusion of all. VOCES de la dignidad humana will take place on February 27 to 29, at Campus Monterrey and will be broadcast via Live.tec, the complete agenda of the event can be check at https://tec.mx/es/dignidad-humana/voces-de-la-digndiad-humana.

The event is aimed at students, teachers and support staff. Don't miss this opportunity. See you at VOCES!

Approaching the kick-off of the February-June 2024 semester! Are you all set? Get ready for a stellar start with these handy recommendations from our checklist:

• Essentials at Your Fingertips: Keep your institutional account and digital key handy. If you need a hand, reach out to TecServices at tecservices@servicios.tec.mx or your campus's IT department.
• miTec Hub Insights: Dive into miTec to access vital tools like Canvas, your professor schedule, and Success Factors. Tec21 educators can explore specific functionalities tailored for them in miTec21.
• Canvas Command Center: Brace yourself for the semester with Canvas, your go-to platform. Personalize your account, flip on notifications for seamless student communication, and ensure your course details are up-to-date. Unclutter your content by unpublishing or purging unnecessary elements to steer clear of duplications.
• eLumen Link-Up: Don't forget to link your evidence with eLumen, and remember, the rubric might already be preloaded.
• Evaluation Blueprint: Set up your evaluation plan.
• Content Cascade: Hit publish on all the must-see course content.
• Course Go-Live: The grand finale - publish your course.

Learn more in this support video!

On the CEDDIE site, you can find support material on technological enablers, various resources to enhance your teaching practice, and recommendations for your well-being. 

Remember that at CEDDIE, we are here for you. Contact us in person at your campus or through the remote service, Conexión Ceddie, via Zoom (ID: conexionceddie o https://itesm.zoom.us/my/conexionceddie)! 

TEDU: https://sites.google.com/itesm.mx/usodecanvastec/experiencia-tec21 

Oferta de capacitación: https://ceddie.tec.mx/es/desarrollo-docente 

CEDDIE: https://ceddie.tec.mx/es 

Best of luck this semester!

TEC DU HACK, the CEDDIE Educational Innovation Hackathon at Tecnológico de Monterrey, stands as an opportunity to solve educational challenges by seeking ideas and solutions that address the need for student engagement.

On December 6th and 7th, 2023, the second national edition of Tec Du Hack was held, where 194 participants, 35 teacher evaluators and mentors, along with the entire CEDDIE educational innovation team, and the Educational Entrepreneurship team of the Institute for the Future of Education (IFE), united to work on a common challenge:

To ensure that the integration of generative artificial intelligence in the educational context translates into an understanding and demonstration of genuine learning for our students.

Over two intensive days of activities, presentations, workshops, and continuous work sessions, both in-person and remote, more than 233 teachers, mentors, and speakers worked and provided feedback on the launch of 48 educational innovation designs from four different perspectives:

1. Feedback and assessment enhanced by AI
2. AI tools for competency development
3. Content production through generative artificial intelligence
4. Converging emerging technologies (AI in the metaverse)

As part of the experience, various teams of teachers presented their ideas before an evaluating jury, who analyzed the proposals and defined the three recognized ideas, based on criteria such as innovative approach, potential to improve the learning experience, impact potential, as well as feasibility of implementation and scalability.

The winning teams will be recognized as TEC·DU HACK Ambassadors for one year, and all participants, regardless of their position on the leaderboard, will obtain a blockchain-based microcredential.

The hackathon represents an opportunity for teachers to work in teams on the solution of common challenges. These spaces allow the combination of creativity, initiative, and talent in the generation of ideas with the potential to change their educational environments and impact the improvement of the learning experience.

• 1st place GPTeach Systemic AI model for genuine learning
• 2nd place Pimp my Prompt 24/7 virtual assistant for teachers
• 3rd place GPTs as a tool for personalized learning Prompts for competency development

Congratulations to all who participated, and particularly to the winning teams!

Throughout 2023, the Center for Teaching Development and Educational Innovation (CEDDIE) at Tecnológico de Monterrey led a pioneering initiative to explore how teachers can leverage the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform education.

Under the "Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence" initiative, educators from all levels of the institution, from high school to graduate studies, were invited to document and share innovative uses of AI in teaching and learning. The aim was to improve education and grant recognition as pioneers through digital badges for incorporating these tools into their educational practice.

During the IFE Conference 2024, a representative selection of the more than 190 practices documented in the initiative was presented, taking advantage of the attendance of some AI implementers at the event. This exhibition provided an ideal platform for educators to share and receive feedback on their experiences, thereby extending the reach of the proposals presented.

Among the most outstanding proposals displayed were those from the teams that won first and second place at TecDuHack 2023 (CEDDIE Hackathon), which demonstrated innovative ways to promote genuine learning by integrating generative AI tools into new learning environments.

The "Pioneers in AI from CEDDIE" initiative remains open to all educators at the institution, encouraging continuous innovation in the use of AI for education. All those interested in joining and registering a proposal can access the Mi Innovación Educativa platform, where they will find more information and can document their innovations.