Teacher´s competences: demand, conditions and research lines for postgraduate training in educational innovation

Abstract

The progress shown in Virtual Distance Education in CNU Institutions of Higher Education demands competencies in teachers for educational innovation in this modality. For this reason, the objective of this work was to make a diagnosis of findings that justify continuous training for the strengthening of competencies for virtual educational innovation. This, with the intention of documenting the continuing education requirements of teachers to justify the relevance of a virtual Master's program in Educational Innovation in the UALN-CNU Program. In this diagnosis, a virtual diagnostic evaluation form was applied to a sample of 633 teachers, using the Google Forms tool. The results of the diagnosis showed general information about the teachers, aged between 35 and 40 years old, with undergraduate and graduate degrees; most of them have computer equipment, mainly laptops; Internet connection; they participate in research and publications, in research groups; they are interested in pursuing graduate studies, since it is the modality and methodology that best suits them. It is concluded that there are teachers who are interested in carrying out studies in the virtual modality and that they fulfill the basic requirements to start a virtual master's degree program, likewise, they demand to carry out research in the topics of learning strategies of Virtual Distance Education, pedagogical mediation in Virtual Learning Environments, production of digital educational resources, innovation in distance education and quality evaluation.